Swing Low, Swing Death | |
Author: | Ruthven Todd |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Mystery |
Publisher: | John Westhouse |
Release Date: | 1946 |
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Swing Low, Swing Death is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British author Ruthven Todd, written under the pen name of R.T. Campbell.[1] It was the last of seven novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs.[2] Todd planned to continue the series, with five more titles announced, but the bankruptcy of his publisher brought the series to a halt. The following year he emigrated to the United States. It was republished in 2018 by Dover Publications, along with three others Stubbs adventures.
A controversial new modern art gallery in London is the site for the unveiling of a painting. However, when the supposed masterpiece is revealed, the body of a dead art dealer is found hanging from the picture hook.