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And Death Came Too

Anthony Gilbert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Murder Room

Published:14th Mar '14

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

Beautiful, amoral and ruthless - but was she a killer?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

Beautiful, amoral and ruthless - but was she a killer?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

Ruth Garside was framed for three killings. But was she really guilty?

As a girl, Ruth was accused of a dreadful crime; as a wife she was suspected of her husband's death; as a widow she was accused of her employer's murder. ­­

'I can prove her innocence,' cried Thomas Fogg KC. 'I can prove my own innocence,' said Ruth. 'She's my client so she can't be guilty, and by heck, I'll prove it if it means the skies falling,' declared Arthur Crook. Well - does he? And­ is he justified?

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 *
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert * Inkquilletc.blogspot *
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing * SUNDAY TIMES *
Anthony Gilbert's novels show the unsensational type of detective story at its best * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

ISBN: 9781471910043

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 18mm

Weight: 200g

224 pages