Death Makes a Prophet

Death Makes a Prophet is a 1947 detective novel by the British author John Bude, the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore. In 2017 it was reissued by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of republished crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Synopsis
In Welworth Garden City in Hertfordshire a growing cult has gathered members, but a power dispute has broken out between the founder and a charismatic newcomer. During a summer rally at the country estate of one of its wealthiest and most prominent members, a double murder takes place with the High Prophet of the movement amongst the dead.