Snake in the Grass (novel)

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Snake in the Grass
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First edition (UK)
Author Anthony Gilbert
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
Publisher Collins Crime Club (UK)
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1954
Media typePrint
Preceded by Footsteps Behind Me  
Followed byIs She Dead Too? 

Snake in the Grass is a 1954 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the twenty eighth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous solicitor and detective Arthur Crook. [1] It was published in the United States under the alternative title Death Won't Wait. [2] Reviewing it in the New York Times Anthony Boucher described it "one of Gilbert’s duller books", while other reviews were more praiseworthy.

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Synopsis

A man is accosted on a London street by an attractive young woman who begs him for the loan of a pound, explaining that she is fleeing from her husband. She promptly disappears, a when her husband is found dead, Arthur Crook becomes involved in the case which plays out amidst the black marketeers and bombed-out buildings of the post-war capital.

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References

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

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