Miss Pinnegar Disappears

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| author = Anthony Gilbert

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Arthur Crook

| genre = Mystery thriller

| publisher = Collins
Harper (US)

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| preceded_by =Lady Killer

| followed_by = Footsteps Behind Me

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Miss Pinnegar Disappears is a 1952 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the twenty sixth 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 A Case for Mr. Crook.Reilly p.660

Synopsis

Crook meets Frances Pinnegar at a bus stop and after giving her a lift home offers her his card in case she ever needs his professional services. Miss Pinnegar is a respectable retired nurse so this hardly seems likely. However when trouble arises some months later she sends him an urgent phone message, but he gets there too late as she has already vanished.

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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:1952 British novels

Category:British mystery novels

Category:British thriller novels

Category:Novels by Anthony Gilbert

Category:Novels set in England

Category:British detective novels

Category:William Collins, Sons books

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