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Author | Henry Wade |
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Language | English |
Series | Inspector Poole |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Constable |
Publication date | 1940 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | Bury Him Darkly |
Followed by | Too Soon to Die |
Lonely Magdalen is a 1940 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. [1] It was the fifth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [2] The book focuses more closely on police procedural than the traditional puzzle format. [3] There was a thirteen-year gap between this and the next entry in the series Too Soon to Die.
A woman is found strangled on a corner of London's Hampstead Heath, who proves to be a prostitute from Kentish Town. The investigations of Inspector Poole, however, reveal that she had once been from a respectable background. He deduces the culprit is like to be drawn from one her clients.
![]() First edition | |
Author | Henry Wade |
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Language | English |
Series | Inspector Poole |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Constable |
Publication date | 1940 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Bury Him Darkly |
Followed by | Too Soon to Die |
Lonely Magdalen is a 1940 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. [1] It was the fifth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [2] The book focuses more closely on police procedural than the traditional puzzle format. [3] There was a thirteen-year gap between this and the next entry in the series Too Soon to Die.
A woman is found strangled on a corner of London's Hampstead Heath, who proves to be a prostitute from Kentish Town. The investigations of Inspector Poole, however, reveal that she had once been from a respectable background. He deduces the culprit is like to be drawn from one her clients.