Author | Anthony Gilbert |
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Language | English |
Series | Arthur Crook |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher |
Collins Crime Club (UK) A.S. Barnes (US) |
Publication date | 1947 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | The Spinster's Secret |
Followed by | Die in the Dark |
Death in the Wrong Room is a 1947 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. [1] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age. [2]
Shortly after the Second World War the domineering Lady Bute comes to live as a paying guest at the home built by Colonel Anstruther and now run by his daughter. Her murder threatens to unravel secrets best kept buried.