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A Spy for Mr Crook Anthony Gilbert

A Spy for Mr Crook By Anthony Gilbert

A Spy for Mr Crook by Anthony Gilbert

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Murder, politics and Nazi sympathisers - Arthur Crook has his detection skills pushed to the limit...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

A Spy for Mr Crook Summary

A Spy for Mr Crook by Anthony Gilbert

Murder, politics and Nazi sympathisers - Arthur Crook has his detection skills pushed to the limit., with a most unlikely conspirator...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club


'The lobby of the House of Commons was very full on the momentous afternoon that Miss Sarah Bennett, a composed and amused spinster, torn from her happy obscurity by an energetic and enterprising Minister of Labour, came from the Temporary Pass Office, up the stairs, through a corridor lined with effigies of the great . . .'

Arthur Crook, and valiant conspirator Miss Sarah Bennett, secretary to Allen Wilkinson Stout MP, adventure through murders, Nazi incitement and parliamentary happenings to save a wing commander arrested for murder.

A Spy for Mr Crook Reviews

If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert * Inkquilletc.blogspot *
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
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 *
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing * SUNDAY TIMES *

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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NPB9781471909788
9781471909788
1471909786
A Spy for Mr Crook by Anthony Gilbert
Anthony Gilbert
Mr Crook Murder Mystery
New
Paperback
The Murder Room
2013-04-14
224
N/A
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