{{Short description|1951 novel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox book | name =Beware Your Neighbour | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:Beware Your Neighbour.jpg | caption = First edition (UK) | author = Cecil Street | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Desmond Merrion | genre = Detective | publisher = Collins | release_date = 1951 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by =A Village Afraid | followed_by = Murder Out of School }} '''''Beware Your Neighbour''''' is a 1951 detective novel by the British writer Cecil Street, writing under the pen name of Miles Burton.<ref>Evans p.269</ref> It was part of a lengthy series of books featuring the detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard.<ref>Reilly p.1259</ref> Unlike much of the series it takes place in suburban rather than rural England. Reviewing the novel in ''The Spectator'' Esther Howard wrote " I always find that Mr. Burton has nearly the most colourless detectives, prose-style and plots of anyone in the business, and ''Beware Your Neighbour'', death in an exclusive thoroughfare, though mechanically adequate, is entirely devoid of excitement."

==Synopsis== In the small prosperous street of Hallows Green a series of threatening letters are sent that appear to be leading up to a murder. Desmond Merrion is a friend of one of the residents and lends his assistance. When a murder is committed Arnold of the Yard arrives and they join forces to crack the case.

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==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. * Herbert, Rosemary. ''Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing''. Oxford University Press, 2003. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.

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