Number Seven, Queer Street

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Number Seven, Queer Street

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for the first US edition of Number Seven, Queer Street
Author Margery Lawrence
Country UK
Language English
Genre(s) Supernatural fiction, Detective fiction short stories
Publisher Robert Hale
Publication date 1945
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 350 pp
ISBN NA

Number Seven, Queer Street is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Margery Lawrence. It was first published by Robert Hale in the UK in 1945. The first US edition was published in 1966 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,027 copies and omits the last two stories. The stories are about Lawrence's supernatural detective Miles Pennoyer.

[edit] Contents

Number Seven, Queer Street contains the following tales:

  1. "Foreword"
  2. "The Case of the Bronze Door"
  3. "The Case of the Haunted Cathedral"
  4. "The Case of Ella McLeod"
  5. "The Case of the White Snake"
  6. "The Case of the Moonchild"
  7. "The Case of the Young Man with the Scar"
  8. "The Case of the Leannabh Sidhe"

[edit] References

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