# Fourfingers

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{{Short description|1939 novel}}
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{{infobox book
| name =  Fourfingers
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| translator = 
| image =File:Fourfingers.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author =  [Lynn Brock](/source/Lynn_Brock)
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| country = [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
| language = English
| series = Sergeant Venn
| genre = Detective
| publisher = [Collins Crime Club](/source/Collins_Crime_Club) 
| release_date = 1939
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| media_type = Print 
| pages = 
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| preceded_by = [The Silver Sickle Case](/source/The_Silver_Sickle_Case)
| followed_by = [The Riddle of the Roost](/source/The_Riddle_of_the_Roost)
}}
'''''Fourfingers''''' is a 1939 [mystery](/source/mystery_novel) [detective novel](/source/detective_novel) by the Irish-born writer [Lynn Brock](/source/Lynn_Brock).<ref>Hubin p.49</ref> It was the second in his trilogy featuring the characters of [Scotland Yard](/source/Scotland_Yard) detective Sergeant Venn and Constable Kither.<ref>Reilly p.198-99</ref> Writing in the ''[Times Literary Supplement](/source/Times_Literary_Supplement)'', reviewer [Maurice Percy Ashley](/source/Maurice_Percy_Ashley) observed "Mr. Lynn Brock’s new book, Fourfingers, good though it is, is so closely written and so full of incident that it is a little heavy going for the reader in search of intellectual relaxation."

==Synopsis==
The body of celebrated author Carla Waterlow is found in a car on Marton Common, an expanse of [heathland](/source/heathland) in the [New Forest](/source/New_Forest). She has been shot through the heart on a lonely stretch of road. Before long two other bodies are discovered nearby. Venner and Kither are despatched from London to lead the investigation. The case grows more complex as they follow up several leads, but appears to revolve around the [fingerprint](/source/fingerprint)s left on a gold [cigarette case](/source/cigarette_case) in Waterlow's car by an unknown figure.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Hubin, Allen J. ''Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography''. Garland Publishing, 1984.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.

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Category:1939 British novels
Category:1939 English-language novels
Category:British mystery novels
Category:Novels by Lynn Brock
Category:Novels set in England
Category:British detective novels
Category:Collins Crime Club books
Category:Irish mystery novels
Category:Irish detective novels
Category:Mystery novels set in Ireland
Category:1930s mystery novels

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