GILBERT, Anthony - Death Knocks Three Times - [Arthur Crook # 22] - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

This is the 1953 edition - Book condition is very good but does have a pen date and old price crossed out inside - Dust Jacket is excellent - Red cloth boards are clean and fresh -  (Photo not in book but just so you can see what this clever lady looked like)     >>>    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   -    The twenty second in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age.   -   Our favorite criminal lawyer, Mr. Crook, gets caught in a violent storm on the Moors while visiting a police-spy client. While on his way home, he is forced to seek shelter at an isolated house in Chipping Magna and is grudgingly given it for the night by eccentric old Colonel Sherren who lives there alone with one servant.    -    On Crook's return to town he reads that his reluctant host has been found dead in his bath. Accident, murder or suicide? Crook's suspicions are aroused when he hears of the recent deaths of two other members of the same family, so, he starts investigations on his own account -- even though there is nothing in it for him, which is strictly against his principles, but is in itself eloquent testimony to Anthony Gilbert's plot.