About “The fourth bomb”
The Fourth Bomb is a 1942 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of British author Cecil Street. It is the thirty-sixth book in a series featuring Lancelot Priestley, a classic detective from the Golden Age of mystery fiction. The story follows Inspector Waghorn as he investigates a series of events, but the complexity of the evidence and the spread of suspicion require Priestley’s expertise to solve the case. Reviews of the book noted its familiar structure and setting in wartime England, with one critic describing it as a standard example of the Dr. Priestley formula. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1942