Death Knocks Three Times
{{Short description|1949 novel}}
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| author = Anthony Gilbert
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = Arthur Crook
| genre = Mystery thriller
| publisher = Collins Crime Club (UK)
Random House (US)
| release_date = 1949
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| preceded_by =Lift Up the Lid
| followed_by = Murder Comes Home
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Death Knocks Three Times is a 1949 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.Reilly p.660 It is the twenty second in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age.Murphy p.120
Synopsis
While travelling back to London during a storm, Crook is forced to shake shelter at the house of the eccentric Colonel Sherren in Chipping Magna. Soon afterwards he is called back to give evidence at the inquest following the old man's death in his bathtub. His suspicions are aroused when he discovers he was not the only member of the family to die recently.
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Bibliography
- Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2. Salem Press, 1988.
- Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
Category:British mystery novels
Category:British thriller novels
Category:Novels by Anthony Gilbert
Category:Novels set in England
Category:British detective novels
Category:Collins Crime Club books
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