Ground for Suspicion
Appearance
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Author | Cecil Street |
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Language | English |
Series | Desmond Merrion |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1950 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | Look Alive |
Followed by | A Village Afraid |
Ground for Suspicion is a 1950 detective novel by the British writer Cecil Street, writing under the pen name of Miles Burton.[1] It was part of a lengthy series of books featuring the detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard.[2] Maurice Richardson writing in The Observer considered it " Readable enough in its old-fashioned, consequential style.".
Synopsis
Looking for a break from crime-solving Merrion heads on holiday with his wife to the seaside town of Shellmouth. Before he has been there more than a few days, however, three suspicious deaths have occurred and with Scotland Yard called in he join with Arnold to solve the mysteries.
References
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.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.