They Watched by Night is a 1941 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1][2] It is the thirty fifth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.[3] It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead with the alternative title Signal for Death.[4]

They Watched by Night
First Edition (US)
AuthorJohn Rhode
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLancelot Priestley
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date
1941
Media typePrint
Preceded byDeath at the Helm 
Followed byThe Fourth Bomb 

References edit

  1. ^ Evans p.248
  2. ^ Magill p.1417
  3. ^ Reilly p.1257
  4. ^ 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.
  • Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.