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Missing From Her Home

Anthony Gilbert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Murder Room

Published:21st May '14

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

A missing child - and she might not be the last victim...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

A missing child - and she might not be the last victim...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club


Angela Toni, only nine years old, has been missing for several days, and it is Wilfrid Hersey's son Ben who is under suspicion. Hersey meets Detective Arthur Crook, whose blood boils at thought of a child killer.

But as Crook digs deeper he discovers that the night Angela disappeared was also the night an unidentified man was found in Hangman's Alley, a shortcut the child would have taken on her way home. And another murder will take place before Crook finally uncovers the truth.

'Grips steadily, like a conscientious ant's jaws' Observer

'Arthur Crook in rumbustious form'Sunday Telegraph

No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
Grips steadily, like a conscientious ant's jaws * OBSERVER *
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 *
Fast, light, likeable * NEW YORK TIMES *
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 *
The plot is knife-edge tension all the way * BELFAST TELEGRAPH *
Amusing and zestful, with an unexpected and exciting climax * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

ISBN: 9781471910340

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

224 pages