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Death Wears a Mask

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

May Forbes came four nights a week to feed the wild cats on Broomstick Common. That was how she happened to glimpse a masked man with a spade - and she's now in fear for her life.

Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

May Forbes came four nights a week to feed the wild cats on Broomstick Common. That was how she happened to glimpse a masked man with a spade - and she's now in fear for her life.

Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club


May leaves the common and ends up at the Mettlesome Horse, where irascible lawyer, Arthur Crook, is drinking at the bar. So when the body of eighteen-year-old Linda Myers is found buried on the Common, Crook discovers a number of people who might want the girl dead.

Then May Forbes leaves for work one lunchtime and does not reappear . . .

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 *
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 *
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant * SUNDAY EXPRESS *

ISBN: 9781471910364

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

224 pages