| The Claverton Mystery | |
| Author: | John Rhode |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lancelot Priestley |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Collins (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
| Release Date: | 1933 |
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| Followed By: | The Venner Crime |
The Claverton Mystery is a 1933 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the fifteenth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead with the altered title The Claverton Affair.[2] The tone of the book has been described as much darker than the author's other novels.[3]
Priestley goes to visit his friend Sir John Claverton at his gloomy house, and shortly afterwards hears that he has died. The dead man's doctor is not convinced it was a natural death, and evidence of poisoning emerges. There are several beneficiaries of the dead man's will.