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The mouse who wouldn't play ball
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Anthony Gilbert |
A false alarm at Everard Hope's home leads to a fatal tumble down the staircase by the miserly owner. The assembled relations are flabberghasted when Hope's lawyer informs them that he had remade h… |
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No dust in the attic
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Anthony Gilbert |
On a fast train to London, lawyer Arthur Crook meets trouble with a capital T. During the journey one passenger disappears and is subsequently found dead beside the line; and it is thanks to Crook's … |
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Riddle of a lady
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Anthony Gilbert |
What was hidden under the bland exterior of Henry Greatorex, the charming, indolent, unpredictable chief of the Beckfield branch of Greatorex Brothers, the reputable London solicitors? Was he merely … |
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Out for the kill
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Anthony Gilbert |
Brash lawyer-detective Arthur Crook, of the ancient Rolls Royce, ginger hair and billycock headgear, is on the scene again, this time saving the day for client, love and the British police force.
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The black stage
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Anthony Gilbert |
Among the visitors to the Verekers' family mansion of Four Acres was Lewis Bishop — the perfect victim, whom everyone had reason to hate and fear. When he is suddenly shot dead in the darkness of the… |
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Portrait of a murderer
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Anthony Gilbert |
Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931.'
Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933 that has be… |
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