GILBERT, Anthony - He Came by Night - [Arthur Crook Series] - (Excellent Hardcover in Wrapper)

This is the 1952 edition - Book and wrapper in great condition - Red cloth boards are clean and fresh -  (Photo not in book but just so you can see what this clever lady looked like) Dust Jacket is 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 of crime.   >>>  How do you catch a killer when the murder goes unnoticed ?    -    The victim was certainly deserving of death, but not the hard, cruel death he found. No one deserved that . . .   -   At first, the killer goes unsuspected. Someone else would pay the price for the crime - an innocent woman would pay and the murderer was willing to arrange other, more 'accidental' deaths to ensure it . . . until solicitor-detective Arthur Crook steps in.    -   In one of his most baffling cases, Crook only has two guiding principles: his client is always innocent and, come hell or high water, he always gets his man.   >>>   It was sheer luck that caused Arthur Crook, taking an unwanted holiday in November in the little Mereshire Village of Bridges St. Mary, to stumble on a body where no body had any right to be. It was Crook who hardily undertook to work for the defense of the old woman arrested for the crime, who followed the trail from Kings Fossett to Bishop Cleveland, and thence to London; who unraveled the mystery of the strange girl, Stella Reed; who attacked the murderer with his own weapons and at the eleventh hour, when everything seemed lost, who produced the final iota of evidence that brought the criminal to book. In one of his most baffling cases.