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Synopsis
Teddy Lane has sunk into the sordid depths of blackmail and thinks he is on to a good thing. He knows the dark secrets of four people who have everything to lose if they are exposed - a young actress, a criminal lawyer, a scientist, and an elderly woman with a doctor son. What he hasn't bargained for is that two people are more ruthless than him. And they will not let him get away with it, even if it means murder - his murder.
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About the Author
Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. Born in London, she spent all her life there, and her affection for the city is clear from the strong sense of character and place in evidence in her work. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best known character, Arthur Crook, a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the aristocratic detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey, who dominated the mystery field at the time. She also wrote more than 25 radio plays, which were broadcast in Great Britain and overseas. Her thriller The Woman in Red (1941) was broadcast in the United States by CBS and made into a film in 1945 under the title My Name is Julia Ross. She was an early member of the British Detection Club, which, along with Dorothy L. Sayers, she prevented from disintegrating during World War II. Malleson published her autobiography, Three-a-Penny, in 1940, and wrote numerous short stories, which were published in several anthologies and in such periodicals as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Saint. The short story 'You Can't Hang Twice' received a Queens award in 1946. She never married, and evidence of her feminism is elegantly expressed in much of her work.
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- PublisherWhite Lion Publishers
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0856172812
- ISBN 13 9780856172816
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Footsteps behind me.
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White Lion Publishers, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0856172812
ISBN 13: 9780856172816
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hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 21 cm. 192 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket, light browning. Dust jacket is protected with a removable plastic cover. Seller Inventory # 52492
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Footsteps Behind Me
Published by
White Lion Publishers, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0856172812
ISBN 13: 9780856172816
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Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. New Edition. 1973. New edition (first White Lion edition). 192pp. Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973), an English writer who is best known for her crime novels. Footsteps Behind Me, first published in 1953, is the twenty seventh in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous solicitor and detective Arthur Crook. It was published in the United States under the alternative title Black Death. The story concerns a blackmailer who 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. The book is bound in the original red boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the bottom of the spine and top corners. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and the corners are bumped and nicked. The spine ends are bumped and creased with small pieces missing from the top spine corners and bottom rear spine corner. The top edge and bottom rear edge are rubbed and creased with the top edge having severel nicks and small tears. Seller Inventory # gLitGilbert01
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