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The Twenty-One Clues

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The Twenty-One Clues
AuthorJ.J. Connington
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSir Clinton Driffield
GenreDetective
PublisherHodder and Stoughton
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byFor Murder Will Speak 
Followed byNo Past Is Dead 

The Twenty-One Clues is a 1941 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] It is the fourteenth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, the Chief Constable of a rural English county. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.[2]

Synopsis

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Two bodies are spotted by an engine driver in some bracken close to the railway line. A man and a woman, unmarried to each other and rumoured to have had an affair despite their respectable backgrounds, have apparently taken part in a suicide pact.

References

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  1. ^ Murphy p.152
  2. ^ Reilly p.347

Bibliography

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  • 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.
  • Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
  • Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.