The Telephone Call (novel) explained

The Telephone Call
Author:	John Rhode
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Lancelot Priestley
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Geoffrey Bles (UK) Dodd Mead (US)
Release Date:	1948
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	The Paper Bag
Followed By:	Blackthorn House

The Telephone Call is a 1948 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.^{[1] [2]} It is the forty-seventh in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title Shadow of an Alibi.^[3] It is based on the real-life Wallace Case of 1931 in which William Herbert Wallace was convicted of murdering his wife Julia, a conviction which was later overturned on appeal.^[4]

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.
• Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4. Salem Press, 1988.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Magill p. 1418.
2. Evans p. 133.
3. Reilly p. 1257.
4. Evans p. 93.