Footsteps Behind Me by Anthony Gilbert

Footsteps Behind Me by Anthony Gilbert

He knows their darkest secrets - but they are even more ruthless than him, with murder in mind... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

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 *
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
Anthony Gilbert has real detective power * MANCHESTER GUARDIAN *
At the top of his form. One of the most telling situations in crime fiction, and Gilbert exploits it brilliantly -- Francis Iles

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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ISBN 13	9781471910005
ISBN 10	1471910008
Title	Footsteps Behind Me
Author	Anthony Gilbert
Series	Mr Crook Murder Mystery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Murder Room
Year published	2014-03-14
Number of pages	224
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