![]() ![]() The last Crook novel, 'A Nice Little Killing', was published in 1974. ![]() ![]() The first Crook novel, 'Murder by Experts', was published in 1936 and was immediately popular. Instead of dispassionately analyzing a case, he usually enters it after seemingly damning evidence has built up against his client, then conducts a no-holds-barred investigation of doubtful ethicality to clear him or her. She went on to publish 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best known character, Arthur Crook.Ĭrook is a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the aristocratic detectives who dominated the mystery field when Gilbert introduced him, such as Lord Peter Wimsey. Her first mystery novel followed a visit to the theatre when she saw 'The Cat and the Canary' and 'Tragedy at Freyne', featuring Scott Egerton who later appeared in 10 novels, was published in 1927. Her parents wanted her to be a schoolteacher but she was determined to become a writer. She also wrote an autobiography under the Meredith name, 'Three-a-Penny (1940). She also wrote non-genre fiction as Anne Meredith, under which name she also published one crime novel. ![]() Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Malleson an English crime writer. ![]()
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