A missing child – and she might not be the last victim…
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
Angela Toni, only nine years old, has been missing for several days, and it is Wilfrid Hersey’s son Ben who is under suspicion. Hersey meets Detective Arthur Crook, whose blood boils at thought of a child killer.
But as Crook digs deeper he discovers that the night Angela disappeared was also the night an unidentified man was found in Hangman’s Alley, a shortcut the child would have taken on her way home. And another murder will take place before Crook finally uncovers the truth.
‘Grips steadily, like a conscientious ant’s jaws’ Observer
‘Arthur Crook in rumbustious form’ Sunday Telegraph
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
Angela Toni, only nine years old, has been missing for several days, and it is Wilfrid Hersey’s son Ben who is under suspicion. Hersey meets Detective Arthur Crook, whose blood boils at thought of a child killer.
But as Crook digs deeper he discovers that the night Angela disappeared was also the night an unidentified man was found in Hangman’s Alley, a shortcut the child would have taken on her way home. And another murder will take place before Crook finally uncovers the truth.
‘Grips steadily, like a conscientious ant’s jaws’ Observer
‘Arthur Crook in rumbustious form’ Sunday Telegraph
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Reviews
The plot is knife-edge tension all the way
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
Grips steadily, like a conscientious ant's jaws
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
Amusing and zestful, with an unexpected and exciting climax
Anthony Gilbert shared with other successful crime writers a combination of writing talent and clever plotting skills necessary to make it in detective fiction's Golden Age ... Along with Agatha Christie [he] had a talent to deceive
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
Fast, light, likeable
