Uncertain Death

A missing wife, a husband suspected - and only the incorrigible private investigator can save them both.
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

On the day that Emily Tate vanished, Inspector Marston met her husband, Stephen Tate, on the tow-path of the River Pyle. The unassuming Stephen was on the brink of a nightmare episode that was to make his unhappy marriage, his clandestine love affair and his disappointed hopes seem positively joyous by comparison.

Stephen Tate's wife disappears without a trace, but he does not go to the police and report her missing. That in itself is suspicious. But Stephen hasn't missed Emily. Their marriage was unhappy, and Stephen is having an affair with a woman he cares about. When the police discover this, they begin to suspect that Emily has not just disappeared, but that Stephen has murdered her. Luckily, lawyer and detective Arthur Crook steps in to help!

The determination of the girl he loved was the only thing that could save him from the web of circumstances in which he was enmeshed. She sent for Detective Arthur Crook. Arthur Crook is a charming, unorthodox and brash British lawyer and detective who cares a lot about his clients and less about formalities. He is the main character in the majority of Anthony Gilbert's crime novels, where he creatively solves murder mysteries and intrigues in 1900s England.

'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant' ~Sunday Express

Anthony Gilbert was the pseudonym of the British crime writer . She also wrote under the name , including an autobiography entitled (1940). Her first novel was published in 1927. Later, she published 69 crime novels, and 51 of them featured her best-known character, Arthur Crook, the brash and passionate British lawyer/detective.

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.