Death Knocks Three Times

Death Knocks Three Times

First edition
Author	Anthony Gilbert
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Arthur Crook
Genre	Mystery thriller
Publisher	Collins Crime Club (UK) Random House (US)
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Lift Up the Lid
Followed by	Murder Comes Home

Death Knocks Three Times is a 1949 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.

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