STREET, Cecil, as John Rhode.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Night Exercise. First edition, first impression, with the scarce jacket. This detective mystery draws on Street's service in the Home Guard between 1940 and 1942.Street (1884-1964) also wrote detective novels under the names John Street, 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 also including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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