# The Two Graphs

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{{Short description|1950 novel}}
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| name = The Two Graphs
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| image =File:The Two Graphs.jpg
| caption = First edition (UK)
| author = [John Rhode](/source/John_Rhode)
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| country = [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
| language = English
| series = [Lancelot Priestley](/source/Lancelot_Priestley)
| genre = Detective
| publisher = [Geoffrey Bles](/source/Geoffrey_Bles) (UK) <br /> [Dodd Mead](/source/Dodd_Mead) (US)
| release_date = 1950
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| media_type = Print 
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| preceded_by =[Up the Garden Path](/source/Up_the_Garden_Path_(novel))
| followed_by = [Family Affairs](/source/Family_Affairs_(novel))
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'''''The Two Graphs''''' is a 1950 [detective novel](/source/detective_novel) by [John Rhode](/source/John_Rhode), the [pen name](/source/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](/source/Lancelot_Priestley), a [Golden Age](/source/Golden_Age_of_Detective_Fiction) [armchair detective](/source/armchair_detective). It was published in America by [Dodd Mead](/source/Dodd_Mead) under the [alternative title](/source/alternative_title) '''''Double Identities'''''.<ref>Reilly p.1257</ref> Writing in ''[The Observer](/source/The_Observer)'' [Maurice Richardson](/source/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](/source/Norfolk_Broads) one of a pair of [identical twin](/source/identical_twin) brothers drowns, but it is not clear which one. Matters are further complicated when the surviving twin is poisoned.

==References==
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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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Category:1950 British novels
Category:1950 English-language novels
Category:Novels by Cecil Street
Category:British mystery novels
Category:British thriller novels
Category:Geoffrey Bles books
Category:Novels set in Norfolk
Category:Novels about twin brothers
Category:1950s mystery novels

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