STREET, Cecil, as John Rhode.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Signal for Death. First edition, part of the long running Dr Priestley series. The novel was published in the UK later the same year as They Watched by Night.As John Rhode, Cecil Street (1884-1964) "quickly became one of the leading authors in the golden age of English detective fiction" (ODNB). He also wrote detective novels under the names Miles Burton and Cecil Waye, and books on the Royal Artillery under the pseudonym F.O.O. He was a member of the Detection Club, a 1930s literary group which included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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