Footsteps Behind Me
{{Short description|1953 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)
Harper & Brothers (US)
| release_date = 1953
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| preceded_by =Miss Pinnegar Disappears
| followed_by = Snake in the Grass
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Footsteps Behind Me is a 1953 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the twenty seventh in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.Murphy p.120 Crook first appeared during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, but the series ran for several decades. It was published in the United States under the alternative title Black Death.Reilly p.660
Synopsis
A blackmailer targets four people he knows will pay over large sums rather than have their secrets exposed. To his surprise, however, at least one of the is prepared to murder him to keep his mouth shut.
References
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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:British detective novels
Category:Collins Crime Club books
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