Tenant for Death is a 1937 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare.

[1] His debut novel, it was a reworking of a play Murder in Daylesford Gardens had written.

[2] In style Mallett resembles Chief Inspector French, created by Freeman Wills Crofts.

[3] The body of financier Lionel Ballantine, whose pyramid of companies have just collapsed owing colossal sums of money, is discovered in a house in Daylesford Gardens in South Kensington.

The property was rented by a Mr James, a mysterious man who seems to have vanished into thin air.