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

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

It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead under the slightly altered title Death Sits on the Board.

[2] Isaac Anderson in The New York Times considered "The reader may not have much difficulty in spotting the murderer, but he will not find it so easy to figure out the hows and whys of the case.

Investigating officer Superintendent Hanslet is not convinced his death was an accident, particularly when another member of the firm's board is found dead.