Lonely Magdalen Explained

Lonely Magdalen
Author:	Henry Wade
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Poole
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Constable
Release Date:	1940
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	Bury Him Darkly
Followed By:	Too Soon to Die

Lonely Magdalen is a 1940 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.^[1] It was the fifth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.^[2] The book focuses more closely on police procedural than the traditional puzzle format.^[3] There was a thirteen-year gap between this and the next entry in the series Too Soon to Die.

Synopsis

A woman is found strangled on a corner of London's Hampstead Heath, who proves to be a prostitute from Kentish Town. The investigations of Inspector Poole, however, reveal that she had once been from a respectable background. He deduces the culprit is like to be drawn from one her clients.

Bibliography

• Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
• Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Keating, Henry Reymond Fitzwalter. Whodunit?: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Reilly p.1422
2. Herbert p.205
3. Evans p.34