Mr. Westerby Missing
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 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Cecil Street |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Desmond Merrion |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club (UK) Doubleday (US) |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Murder in the Coalhole |
| Followed by | Death Takes a Flat |
Mr. Westerby Missing is a 1940 detective novel by the British writer Cecil Street, writing under the pen name of Miles Burton.[1] It was the twenty-second in a series of books featuring the detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. It was published in the United States by Doubleday the same year.[2]
In The Observer Maurice Richardson considered it as "another of Mr. Burton’s sound patient investigations" while in his New York Times review Isaac Anderson noted "Miles Burton has written many good mystery stories, and this is one of his best".
