Dead on the Track is a 1943 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of British writer Cecil Street.

[1][2] It is the thirty-seventh in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.

The other recurring police officer in the series Inspector Jimmy Waghorn is now working with military intelligence.

[5] Near the small settlement of Filmerham, the stationmaster discovers a body lying close to the tracks, not far from the station.

Due to a wartime shortage of police personnel, retired Superintendent Hanslet is called back into action.