Death at Dyke's Corner explained

Death at Dyke's Corner
Author:	E.C.R. Lorac
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Chief Inspector MacDonald
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Collins Crime Club (UK) Doubleday (US)
Release Date:	1940
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	Tryst for a Tragedy
Followed By:	Case in the Clinic

Death at Dyke's Corner is a 1940 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.^{[1] [2]} It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, a Golden Age detective who relies on standard police procedure to solve his cases.^[3]

Synopsis

When a stationary car is struck by an oncoming lorry at a very dangerous hairpin bend known as Dyke's Corner and the driver killed it seems an obvious accident. However, MacDonald's methodical investigations reveal it was in fact a cleverly contrived murder.

Bibliography

• Cooper, John & Pike, B.A. Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers, 1920-1970. Scolar Press, 1995.
• Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
• Nichols, Victoria & Thompson, Susan. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder. Scarecrow Press, 1998.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Nichols & Thompson p.476
2. Hubin p.254
3. Reilly p.260