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Bury Him Darkly

1936 novel

Bury Him Darkly is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.[1] It was the fourth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole.[2] Along with the following Poole novel, Lonely Magdalen, it marked a shift towards more realistic police procedurals that has been described as pioneering.[3] Superintendent Fraser, who appeared in Wade's fist novel The Verdict of You All, also appears as one of the characters.

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Synopsis

A robbery at a jewellers in Bond Street goes wrong, leaving a nightwatchman dead. Police follow up various lines of inquiry.

References

  1. [1]
    Reilly p.1422
  2. [2]
    Herbert p.205
  3. [3]
    Evans p.34

Bibliography

  • Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • 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.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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