Death in the Wrong Room

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Death in the Wrong Room
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First edition
Author Anthony Gilbert
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
Publisher Collins Crime Club (UK)
A.S. Barnes (US)
Publication date
1947
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Spinster's Secret  
Followed byDie 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]

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Synopsis

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.

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References

  1. Reilly p.660
  2. Murphy p.120

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