She Shall Die

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471910159

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Genre: Classic Crime / Crime & Mystery

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Assisted suicide – or murder…?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
Even Hatty Savage had to admit, at the inquest, that it had been foolish of her, when Richard Sheridan had threatened suicide, to hand him her sleeping tablets. So when a girl who had apparently been trying to blackmail her also came to an abrupt end, it was scarcely surprising that Hatty found herself in custody.

Fortunately, she’d had the sense to marry local solicitor Philip Cobb, and, the moment Hatty is locked up he rushes to enlist the help of Detective Arthur Crook. When he becomes the prime suspect, it’s a decision Cobb could live to regret …

‘No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant’ Sunday Express

Reviews

Anthony Gilbert's novels show the unsensational type of detective story at its best
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
SUNDAY TIMES
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
Inkquilletc.blogspot
Fast, light, likeable
NEW YORK TIMES
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Anthony Gilbert shared with other successful crime writers a combination of writing talent and clever plotting skills necessary to make it in detective fiction's Golden Age ... Along with Agatha Christie [he] had a talent to deceive
mysteryfile.com