The Visitor
mai. de 2014 · Hachette UK
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A blackmailer - murdered. And the suspect in fear for her life...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
Margaret Ross knew she had to pay off the blackmailer, Samson, or else her beloved son would go to jail for forgery.
The next night she rang the bell at Samson's sinister house on Margate Street. There was no answer. Slowly she entered the house and went up the stairs. Samson was waiting at his desk - murdered. She found the incriminating letters and the cheque and escaped with them. But she had been seen.
The dangers gather like wasps around Margaret and it takes all of Detective Arthur Crook's genius to get to her in time.
'Amusing and zestful, with an unexpected and exciting climax' Daily Telegraph
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
Margaret Ross knew she had to pay off the blackmailer, Samson, or else her beloved son would go to jail for forgery.
The next night she rang the bell at Samson's sinister house on Margate Street. There was no answer. Slowly she entered the house and went up the stairs. Samson was waiting at his desk - murdered. She found the incriminating letters and the cheque and escaped with them. But she had been seen.
The dangers gather like wasps around Margaret and it takes all of Detective Arthur Crook's genius to get to her in time.
'Amusing and zestful, with an unexpected and exciting climax' Daily Telegraph
Sobre o autor
Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. Born in London, she spent all her life there, and her affection for the city is clear from the strong sense of character and place in evidence in her work. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best known character, Arthur Crook, a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the aristocratic detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey, who dominated the mystery field at the time. She also wrote more than 25 radio plays, which were broadcast in Great Britain and overseas. Her thriller The Woman in Red (1941) was broadcast in the United States by CBS and made into a film in 1945 under the title My Name is Julia Ross. She was an early member of the British Detection Club, which, along with Dorothy L. Sayers, she prevented from disintegrating during World War II. Malleson published her autobiography, Three-a-Penny, in 1940, and wrote numerous short stories, which were published in several anthologies and in such periodicals as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Saint. The short story 'You Can't Hang Twice' received a Queens award in 1946. She never married, and evidence of her feminism is elegantly expressed in much of her work.
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