Lawyer-detective Arthur Crook always believes his clients are innocent… despite the evidence to the contrary.
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
A famous art collector’s car discovered at the bottom of a cliff after he was supposed to have taken a young woman to the railway station, so naturally the police expect to find his body there, too. But it turns up weeks later, in a locked room in his country house, and he’s been stabbed to death…
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
A famous art collector’s car discovered at the bottom of a cliff after he was supposed to have taken a young woman to the railway station, so naturally the police expect to find his body there, too. But it turns up weeks later, in a locked room in his country house, and he’s been stabbed to death…
Reviews
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
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
