Vegetable Duck

1944 novel

Vegetable Duck

First edition (UK)

Author| John Rhode
Language| English
Series| Lancelot Priestley
Genre| Detective
Publisher| Collins Crime Club (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)

Publication date

| 1944
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print
Preceded by| Death Invades the Meeting
Followed by| Bricklayer's Arms

Vegetable Duck is a 1944 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the fortieth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. The title refers to a dish including a Marrow stuffed with minced beef, which features in the plot. It has been described as "one of the oddest titles for a detective novel in the genre". Although written during wartime, the setting was post-war. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title Too Many Suspects.[2]

## Synopsis

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At the London service flat where she lives with her husband, dies after eating a meal which later analysis shows was infused with digitalis. Scotland Yard at first suspect her husband, who had been called away by a telephone call of murdering her. However, with the assistance of Priestley, the investigating officer is able to prove this is a long-premeditated crime by someone else.

## References

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1. ^ Magill p.1417
2. ^ Reilly p.1257

## Bibliography

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* 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.

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