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The victims were predictable - the murderer was not... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club Sour, selfish and worth several millions, Mrs French was just the kind of woman you'd expect to be murdered. And so, in due course, she was. Mrs Hoggett was the next to die - another murder predicted by all who, unfortunately, knew her well. Since there was no shortage of suspects, it was small wonder the killer eluded the law. And then a lovely young woman came forth with a show more story of bigamy and blackmail so bizarre it had to be true. All that was needed for proof was yet another corpse... 'Clever' New York Herald Tribune show lessTags
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Blanche French gets what she really wanted - a husband. But once Paul French gets a look at the pretty nurse taking care of his rich wife, he can't help falling for her. Soon Mrs. French is dead. It was just an accident, protests her husband. So why is there another murder a couple of years later?
I enjoyed this one. The dilemma is there almost from the beginning - did he kill his wife or not? You don't really find out until the end.
I enjoyed this one. The dilemma is there almost from the beginning - did he kill his wife or not? You don't really find out until the end.
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Anthony Gilbert, the pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973), is remembered for the creation of Arthur Crook, who unlike aristocratic sleuths like Lord Peter Wimsey and Albert Campion is earthy and occasionally (as editor John Cooper says) "outrageously cheeky," with a sensitivity for the down-and-outers who are caught up in crime. show more Beginning in 1936, Gilbert wrote more than 50 novels featuring Arthur Crook, a London lawyer who spends as much time in pubs as in his office, and who goes to outlandish, and not always legal, lengths to clear his clients. Sequel to Murder: The Cases of Arthur Crook and Other Mysteries includes all the Arthur Crook short cases, as well as a selection of Gilbert's other mystery stories. show less
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- Canonical title
- Death Takes a Wife
- Original title
- Death Takes a Wife
- Alternate titles
- Death Casts a Long Shadow
- Original publication date
- 1959
- People/Characters
- Arthur Crook
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