"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.
