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Death at Four Corners - by  Anthony Gilbert (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Death at Four Corners - by Anthony Gilbert (Paperback)

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  • Death at Four Corners is a 1929 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.
  • Author(s): Anthony Gilbert
  • 190 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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Death at Four Corners is a 1929 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the third novel in a series featuring her amateur detective Scott Egerton.

A man in clerical clothing is found shot dead near Fourt Corner, the seaside country estate of Sir Gervase Blount who immediately comes under suspicion of murder. In particular Blount appears to have been protecting his wife who has been blackmailed by the dead man. The answer is methodically worked out by the detective.

Lucy Malleson was born in Upper Norwood, Croydon. She attended St Paul's Girls' School. When her stockbroker father lost his job in 1914, the family suffered financial hardship, and she took up shorthand typing to earn a living. She began writing poetry, and then, inspired by the play The Cat and the Canary by John Willard (1922), she tried her hand at detective novels, using the name J. Kilmeny Keith. The first was The Man Who Was London, published in 1925. She published over sixty crime novels as Anthony Gilbert, most of which featured her best-known character, Arthur Crook. Crook is a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the sophisticated detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Philo Vance, who dominated the mystery field when Gilbert introduced him. Instead of dispassionately analysing a case, he usually enters it after seemingly damning evidence has built up against his client, then conducts a no-holds-barred investigation of doubtful ethics to clear him or her. As fellow mystery author Michael Gilbert noted, "...he behaved in a way which befitted his name and would not have been approved by the Law Society." The first Crook novel, Murder by Experts, was published in 1936 and was immediately popular. The last Crook novel, A Nice Little Killing, was published in 1974.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .58 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 190
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
Theme: Traditional
Format: Paperback
Author: Anthony Gilbert
Language: English
Street Date: May 12, 2025
TCIN: 1009741303
UPC: 9781963956962
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-6405
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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