John Rhode
“John Rhode” was one of a number of pseudonyms used by British Golden Age crime novelist Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964). Born in Gibraltar, Street served in the British Army as an artillery officer. He was wounded three times in combat and won the Military Cross. During World War I he worked as a propagandist for military intelligence. As a crime novelist, Street wrote many stand-alone novels, as well as three series, featuring mathematics professor Dr. Lancelot Priestley (writing as John Rhode); retired naval officer Desmond Merrion (as Miles Burton); and the Perrins Investigators (as Cecil Waye). In 1930, he was a founding member of The Detection Club, a group of prominent British mystery writers.
