GILBERT, Anthony - Death gainst the Clock - [Arthur Crook Series] -(Excellent Hardcover in Wrapper)

Originally published in 1958  by Collins - This copy was published by White Lion of London in 1971 - Book condition is great - Small pen number inside -  Red cloth boards with gold titles are clean and fresh -  (Photo not in book but just so you can see what this clever lady looked like) - Unclipped dust Jacket is excellent and now in a removable protective plastic sleeve.  - A mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert   -    Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson, an English crime writer and a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson   -   Part of her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age.     >>>    In a small English town, family conflict can be murder...     -   When spinster Emily Foss, who ran the haberdashery, is found bludgeoned to death, the silver pencil that had surely been in her purse that night is found in brash young Lennie Hunter's possession, and it is he who is to be hanged for the crime   -   To clear his name, Hunter's fiancée brings in Detective Arthur Crook. Soon Crook discovers Emily was not on good terms with her nephew, his wife, or many others in the small English town where she lived. Faced with a maze of hidden motives, Crook must contrive against the clock to trap the real murderer.