Death in the Hopfields is a 1937 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.

[1] It is the 25th in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.

[2] Caldwell Harpur gave the novel a broadly positive review in the Times Literary Supplement but felt that the murder mystery was so simple that there had really been no need for the local police to need assistance to crack the case.

[citation needed] The novel takes place in rural Kent during the hop-picking season.

A burglary takes place and the complex circumstances surrounding it led to Sergeant Wragge of the local force calling in Scotland Yard.