Death at Dyke's Corner is a 1940 detective novel by E.C.R.

Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.

[1][2] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, a Golden Age detective who relies on standard police procedure to solve his cases.

[3] When a stationary car is struck by an oncoming lorry at a very dangerous hairpin bend known as Dyke's Corner and the driver killed it seems an obvious accident.

However, MacDonald's methodical investigations reveal it was in fact a cleverly contrived murder.