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The Body on the Beam Anthony Gilbert

The Body on the Beam By Anthony Gilbert

The Body on the Beam by Anthony Gilbert

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Suicide - or murder? The tiniest clue holds the answer.
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

The Body on the Beam Summary

The Body on the Beam by Anthony Gilbert

Suicide - or murder? The tiniest clue holds the answer.
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

When Florence Penny's body is found hanging from a beam in the bedsit she has been renting, it looks to Inspector Field like a case of suicide. Soon, though, he realises murder is the motive, and the discovery of a single pink bead among the disordered bedclothes leads him to prime suspect Charles Hobart.

It's now up to Scott Egerton, Hobart's prospective brother-in-law, and an astute private inquiry agent named Gordon to establish Hobart's innocence . . .

The Body on the Beam Reviews

No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
A delight from start to finish ... The plotting is mesmerizing, the characters are outrageous, the suspense is relentless and the ending is killer. You're sure to be stunned by one or more twists in the gasp inducing finale * prettysinister.blogspot *
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing * SUNDAY TIMES *
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert * Inkquilletc.blogspot *
Fast, light, likeable * NEW YORK TIMES *
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 * mysteryfile.com *
Well-plotted, fast-moving - brilliant -- Nashville Banner
Anthony Gilbert's novels show the unsensational type of detective story at its best * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

About Anthony Gilbert

Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. Born in London, she spent all her life there, and her affection for the city is clear from the strong sense of character and place in evidence in her work. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best known character, Arthur Crook, a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the aristocratic detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey, who dominated the mystery field at the time. She also wrote more than 25 radio plays, which were broadcast in Great Britain and overseas. Her thriller The Woman in Red (1941) was broadcast in the United States by CBS and made into a film in 1945 under the title My Name is Julia Ross. She was an early member of the British Detection Club, which, along with Dorothy L. Sayers, she prevented from disintegrating during World War II. Malleson published her autobiography, Three-a-Penny, in 1940, and wrote numerous short stories, which were published in several anthologies and in such periodicals as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Saint. The short story 'You Can't Hang Twice' received a Queens award in 1946. She never married, and evidence of her feminism is elegantly expressed in much of her work.

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NPB9781471910500
9781471910500
1471910504
The Body on the Beam by Anthony Gilbert
Anthony Gilbert
Murder Room
New
Paperback
The Murder Room
2014-05-21
224
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