| Doctor Goodwood's Locum | |
| Author: | John Rhode |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lancelot Priestley |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Geoffrey Bles (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
| Release Date: | 1951 |
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| Followed By: | Death at the Dance |
Doctor Goodwood's Locum is a 1951 mystery detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the fifty third in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in America the same year by Dodd Mead under the alternative title The Affair of the Substitute Doctor.[2]
In the market town of Patham, Doctor Greenwood takes his annual August holiday with his wife and hires a locum to take over the practice while he is away. But his replacement Stephen Thornhill goes missing after just a few days, and when a body is discovered Scotland Yard are called in to investigate with the assistance of Priestley.