Death Knocks Three Times

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Death Knocks Three Times
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First edition
AuthorAnthony Gilbert
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Random House (US)
Publication date
1949
Media typePrint
Preceded byLift Up the Lid 
Followed byMurder 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.

References[]

  1. ^ Reilly p.660
  2. ^ Murphy p.120

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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