About “Death at the dance”
Death at the Dance is a 1952 mystery novel by John Rhode, the pen name of British author Cecil Street. It is the fifty-fourth book in a series featuring Lancelot Priestley, a classic detective from the Golden Age. Published in America the same year by Dodd Mead, the story takes place in a fictional West of England county, based on Cornwall. A reviewer, Maurice Richardson, noted that even the most cliché plots cannot make Rhode unreadable. The novel is set in a rural area with abandoned nineteenth-century tin mines, offering a clever plot and an unusual, hard-to-spot murderer and motive. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1952