Bury Him Darkly is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.Reilly p.1422 It was the fourth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole.Herbert p.205 Along with the following Poole novel, Lonely Magdalen, it marked a shift towards more realistic police procedurals that has been described as pioneering.Evans p.34 Superintendent Fraser, who appeared in Wade's fist novel The Verdict of You All, also appears as one of the characters.
Synopsis A robbery at a jewellers in Bond Street goes wrong, leaving a nightwatchman dead. Police follow up various lines of inquiry.
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