| Tragedy on the Line | |
| Author: | John Rhode |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lancelot Priestley |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
| Release Date: | 1931 |
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| Preceded By: | Pinehurst |
| Followed By: | The Hanging Woman |
Tragedy on the Line is a 1931 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the tenth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective who works alongside the less sharp-witted Superintendent Hanslet of Scotland Yard. It was published in the United States the same year by Dodd Mead.[2]
The wealthy Gervase Wickenden is found dead on the railway line near Upton Bishop's station. Decapitated it is at first assumed he was killed by a train, until a bullet is discovered in a nearby tree. Added to this was the suspicious fact that he had changed his will only two days before, and both the old and the new version are now missing.