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He Came by Night Anthony Gilbert

He Came by Night By Anthony Gilbert

He Came by Night by Anthony Gilbert


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Summary

How do you catch a killer when the murder goes unnoticed?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

He Came by Night Summary

He Came by Night by Anthony Gilbert

How do you catch a killer when the murder goes unnoticed?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club


The victim was certainly deserving of death, but not the hard, cruel death he found. No one deserved that . . .

At first, the killer goes unsuspected. Someone else would pay the price for the crime - an innocent woman would pay and the murderer was willing to arrange other, more 'accidental' deaths to ensure it . . . until solicitor-detective Arthur Crook steps in.

In one of his most baffling cases, Crook only has two guiding principles: his client is always innocent and, come hell or high water, he always gets his man.

He Came by Night Reviews

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 *
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert * Inkquilletc.blogspot *

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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NLS9781471909764
9781471909764
147190976X
He Came by Night by Anthony Gilbert
New
Paperback
The Murder Room
2013-04-14
224
N/A
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