Tenant for Death is a 1937 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare. His debut novel, it was a reworking of a play Murder in Daylesford Gardens had written. It introduced his first detective character Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard who recurs through Hare's novels including in the series featuring the lawyer and amateur detective Francis Pettigrew. In style Mallett resembles Chief Inspector French, created by Freeman Wills Crofts.
