The Paper Bag is a 1948 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1][2] It is the forty sixth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title The Links in the Chain.[3]

The Paper Bag
First edition (UK)
AuthorJohn Rhode
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLancelot Priestley
GenreDetective
PublisherGeoffrey Bles (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint
Preceded byDeath of an Author 
Followed byThe Telephone Call 

References edit

  1. ^ Magill p.1418
  2. ^ Evans p.93
  3. ^ Reilly p.1257

Bibliography edit

  • 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.
  • Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.