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John Rhode (Miles Burton) Biography

Cecil John Charles Street was born in 1884 and died in 1964. He had a distinguished military career, reaching the rank of Major, and was awarded the Military Cross. He was also awarded the O.B.E.

Street produced two long series of novels; one under the name of John Rhode featuring the forensic scientist Dr Priestley, and another under the name of Miles Burton featuring the investigator Desmond Merrion. Under the name Cecil Waye, Street produced four novels: The Figure of Eight; The End of the Chase; The Prime Minister's Pencil; and Murder at Monk's Barn. The Dr. Priestley novels were among the first after Sherlock Holmes to feature scientific detection of crime, such as analysing the mud on a suspect's shoes. Desmond Merrion is an amateur detective who works with Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold.

John Rhode (Miles Burton) Bibliography

Dr. Priestley Novels



The Paddington Mystery (1925) 

Dr. Priestley's Quest (1926) 

The Ellerby Case (1927) 

The Murders in Praed Street (1928) 

Tragedy at the Unicorn (1928) 

The House on Tollard Ridge (1929) 

The Davidson Case (1929) (U.S. title Murder at Bratton Grange) 

Peril at Cranbury Hall (1930) 

Pinehurst (1930) (U.S. title Dr. Priestley Investigates) 

Tragedy on the Line (1931) 

The Hanging Woman (1931) 

Mystery at Greycombe Farm (1932) (U.S. title The Fire at Greycombe Farm) 

Dead Men at the Folly (1932) 

The Motor Rally Mystery (1933) (U.S. title Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap) 

The Claverton Mystery (1933) (U.S. title The Claverton Affair) 

The Venner Crime (1933) 

The Robthorne Mystery (1934) 

Poison for One (1934) 

 Shot at Dawn (1934) 

The Corpse in the Car (1935) 

Hendon's First Case (1935) 

Mystery at Olympia (1935) (U.S. title Murder at the Motor Show) 

Death at Breakfast (1936) 

In Face of the Verdict (1936) (U.S. title In the Face of the Verdict) 

Death in the Hop Fields (1937) (U.S. title The Harvest Murder) 

Death on the Board (1937) (U.S. title Death Sits on the Board) 

Proceed with Caution (1937) (U.S. title Body Unidentified) 

Invisible Weapons (1938) 

The Bloody Tower (1938) (U.S. title The Tower of Evil) 

Death Pays a Dividend (1939) 

Death on Sunday (1939) (U.S. title The Elm Tree Murder) 

Death on the Boat Train (1940) 

Murder at Lilac Cottage (1940) 

Death at the Helm (1941) 

They Watched by Night (1941) (U.S. title Signal For Death) 

The Fourth Bomb (1942) 

Dead on the Track (1943) 

Men Die at Cyprus Lodge (1943) 

Death Invades the Meeting (1944) 

Vegetable Duck (1944) (U.S. title Too Many Suspects) 

The Bricklayer's Arms (1945) (U.S. title Shadow of a Crime) 

The Lake House (1946) (U.S. title Secret of the Lake House) 

 Death in Harley Street (1946) 

Nothing But the Truth (1947) (U.S. title Experiment in Crime) 

Death of an Author (1947) 

The Paper Bag (1948) (U.S. title The Links in the Chain) 

Up the Garden Path (1949) (U.S. title The Fatal Garden) 

The Telephone Call (1949) (U.S. title Shadow of an Alibi) * Blackthorn House (1949) 

Family Affairs (1950) (U.S. title The Last Suspect) 

The Two Graphs (1950) (U.S. title Double Identities) 

The Secret Meeting (1951) 

Dr. Goodwood's Locum (1951) (U.S. title The Affair of the Substitute Doctor) 

Death at the Dance (1952) 

Death in Wellington Road (1952) 

Death at the Inn (1953) (U.S. title The Case of the Forty Thieves) 

By Registered Post (1953) (U.S. title The Mysterious Suspect) 

Death on the Lawn (1954) 

The Dovebury Murders (1954) 

Death of a Godmother (1955) (U.S. title Delayed Payment) 

The Domestic Agency (1955) (U.S. title Grave Matters) 

An Artist Dies (1956) (U.S. title Death Of An Artist) 

Open Verdict (1956) 

Death of a Bridegroom (1957) 

Robbery With Violence (1957) 

Death Takes a Partner (1958) 

Licensed For Murder (1958) 

Murder at Derivale (1958) 

Three Cousins Die (1959) 

The Fatal Pool (1960) 

Twice Dead (1960) 

The Vanishing Diary (1961)  



Other Books written as John Rhode



A.S.F.: The Story of a Great Conspiracy (1924) (U.S. title The White Menace) 

The Double Florin (1924) 

The Alarm (1925) 

Mademoiselle From Armentieres (1927) 

Drop to His Death (1939) (U.S. title Fatal Descent) with "Carter Dickson" (John Dickson Carr)

Night Exercise (1942) (U.S. title Dead of the Night) 



Books written as Miles Burton



Series characters: Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion, 

except The Hardway Diamonds Mystery and Murder at the Moorings.



The Secret of High Eldersham (1930) (aka The Mystery of High Eldersham) 

The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (1930) 

The Menace on the Downs (1931) 

The Three Crimes (1931) 

Death of Mr. Gantley (1932) 

Murder at the Moorings (1932) 

Fate at the Fair (1933) 

Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole (1933) 

Death at the Crossroads (1933) 

To Catch A Thief (1934) 

The Charabanc Mystery (1934) 

The Devereux Court Mystery (1935) 

The Milk Churn Murder (1935) (U.S. title The Clue of the Silver Brush) 

Where is Barbara Prentice? (1936) (U.S. title The Clue of the Silver Cellar) 

Death in the Tunnel (1936) (U.S. title Dark Is the Tunnel) 

Murder of a Chemist (1936) 

Death At the Club (1937) (U.S. title The Clue of the Fourteen Keys) 

Murder in Crown Passage (1937) (U.S. title The Man with the Tattooed Face) 

Death at Low Tide (1938) 

The Platinum Cat (1938) 

Mr. Babbacombe Dies (1939) 

Death Leaves No Card (1939) 

Mr. Westerby Missing (1940) 

 Murder in the Coalhole (1940) (U.S. title Written in Dust) 

Death Takes a Flat (1940) (U.S. title Vacancy With Corpse) 

Up The Garden Path (1941) (U.S. title Death Visits Downspring) 

Death of Two Brothers (1941) 

This Undesirable Residence (1942) (U.S. title Death at Ash House) 

Dead Stop (1943) 

Murder M.D. (1943) (U.S. title Who Killed the Doctor?) 

Four-Ply Yarn (1944) (U.S. title The Shadow on the Cliff) 

The Three Corpse Trick (1944) 

Early Morning Murder (1945) (U.S. title Accidents Do Happen) 

Not A Leg to Stand On (1945) 

The Cat Jumps (1946) 

Situation Vacant (1946) 

Heir to Lucifer (1947) 

A Will in the Way (1947) 

Devil's Reckoning (1948) 

Death in Shallow Water (1948) 

Death Takes the Living (1949) (U.S. title The Disappearing Parson) 

Look Alive (1949) 

Ground for Suspicion (1950) 

A Village Afraid (1950) 

Beware Your Neighbour (1951) 

 



Short Storie



On the High Seas, Cassell's Magazine of Fiction, September 1920 

The Ship's Doctor, "Sea Stories", 5 October 1923 

The Elusive Bullet, Short Stories of Detection, Ed. Dorothy L Sayers, 1936 

The Yellow Sphere, Sunday Dispatch, 3 April 1938 

The Vanishing Diamond, 1st publication unknown 

The Purple Line, Evening Standard, 20 January 1950