The Two Graphs

{{Short description|1950 novel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox book | name = The Two Graphs | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:The Two Graphs.jpg | caption = First edition (UK) | author = John Rhode | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Lancelot Priestley | genre = Detective | publisher = Geoffrey Bles (UK) <br /> Dodd Mead (US) | release_date = 1950 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by =Up the Garden Path | followed_by = Family Affairs }} '''''The Two Graphs''''' is a 1950 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.<ref>Magill p.1418</ref><ref>Evans p.134</ref> It is the fiftieth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title '''''Double Identities'''''.<ref>Reilly p.1257</ref> Writing in ''The Observer'' Maurice Richardson noted a "slight slackening of tension towards the finish but an excellent specimen of Rhode’s later period."

==Synopsis== In the Norfolk Broads one of a pair of identical twin brothers drowns, but it is not clear which one. Matters are further complicated when the surviving twin is poisoned.

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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. * Magill, Frank Northen . ''Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4''. Salem Press, 1988. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.

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