The Corpse in the Car is a 1935 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.

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

[2] A review by Ralph Partridge in the New Statesman commented "Mr. Rhode has written a humdrum, workaday book in The Corpse in the Car.

In The Spectator Rupert Hart-Davis considered that "The Corpse in the Car is greatly inferior to his last book, Shot at Dawn."

The imperious Lady Misterton goes out for her usual drive in Windsor Great Park on a cold February afternoon.