Lonely Magdalen is a 1940 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.

[1] It was the fifth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

[2] The book focuses more closely on police procedural than the traditional puzzle format.

A woman is found strangled on a corner of London's Hampstead Heath, who proves to be a prostitute from Kentish Town.

The investigations of Inspector Poole, however, reveal that she had once been from a respectable background.