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<h2 id="synopsis">Synopsis</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Superintendent_(police)/NsKqKGV1">Superintendent</a> Hanslet and <a href="/facts/Inspector/QGMzaXzK">Inspector</a> Waghorn of <a href="/facts/Scotland_Yard/pKHGytN9">Scotland Yard</a> respectively investigate a <a href="/facts/Diamond/IBUdnd1y">diamond</a> robbery and a suspicious death. A consignment of valuable jewels have gone missing while being transported from <a href="/facts/Hatton_Garden/7W51ClnJ">Hatton Garden</a>. Meanwhile a corpse is found in a <a href="/facts/Tar/E4tVbqyq">tar</a> burner in a <a href="/facts/Kent/aYfQI6Fc">Kent</a> village, completely unrecognisable. It takes the genius of Dr. Priestley to demonstrate how these two events are linked.
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<h2 id="literary-significance">Literary Significance</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/E.R._Punshon/B8Jerum7">E.R. Punshon</a> writing in <i><a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a></i> felt " If only Mr. Rhode were a little more careful with his characterisation, if only his literary style were a little less pedestrian, he would take an even higher place than that his persistent—and consistent—ingenuity has won for him."
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<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
<ul><li>Evans, Curtis. <i>Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961</i>. McFarland, 2014.</li>
<li>Magill, Frank Northen . <i>Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3</i>. Salem Press, 1988.</li>
<li>Reilly, John M. <i>Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers</i>. Springer, 2015.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Evans p.85 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Magill p.1417 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Reilly p.1257 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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