The Venner Crime is a 1933 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.

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

[2] It has been described as a sort of sequel to his previous book The Claverton Mystery.

[3] Writing in the New York Times Isaac Anderson considered "This is not one of the best of the Dr. Priestley yarns, but it is plenty good enough to pass an idle evening."

An elderly man named Venner is poisoned by strychnine, but the case is at first mistaken as an accidental death.