Author | J.J. Connington |
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Language | English |
Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Ernest Benn |
Publication date | 1927 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Followed by | Tragedy at Ravensthorpe |
Murder in the Maze is a 1927 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington. It was the first of seventeen novels featuring his best-known character the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, Chief Constable of an English county. It takes the form of a classic country house mystery. First published in Britain by Ernest Benn, it was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company.
References
- Murphy p.152
- Reilly p.346
External Links
- Murder in the Maze at Standard Ebooks
- Murder In The Maze public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Bibliography
- 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.
- James, Russell. Great British Fictional Detectives. Remember When, 2009.