Thursday, December 28, 2017

"The Bane of Bow Street"

SEQUEL TO MURDER: THE CASES OF ARTHUR CROOK AND OTHER MYSTERIES.
By Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson, 1899-1973).
Edited and Introduction (6 pages) by John Cooper.
Crippen & Landru, September 2017.
Collection: 18 stories, 249 pages (TPB).
For sale (HERE).

Online review at Mystery*File (HERE).

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CONTENTS:

  (1) "You Can't Hang Twice" (starring Arthur Crook) (EQMM, November 1946) (online HERE; go to text page 109)
  (2) "Once Is Once Too Many" (starring Arthur Crook) (EQMM, December 1955) (online HERE; go to text page 122)
  (3) "A Nice Little Mare Called Murder" (starring Arthur Crook) (1964)
  (4) "Give Me a Ring" (starring Arthur Crook) (1955)
  (5) "The Black Hat" (starring Arthur Crook) (1942)
  (6) "The Reading of the Will" (1927)
  (7) "Curtains for Me" (1951)
  (8) "Point of No Return" (twisty) (EQMM, May 1968) (online HERE; go to text page 119)
  (9) "Cul-De-Sac" (1952)
  (10) "Following Feet" (starring Inspector Field) (1935)
  (11) "Three Living . . . and One Dead" (1955)
  (12) "The Man with the Chestnut Beard" (1927)
  (13) "Over My Dead Body" (1951)
  (14) "The Funeral of Dendy Watt" (EQMM, January 1970)
  (15) "Horseshoes for Luck" (starring Inspector Field) (1939) (online HERE; go to text page 105)
  (16) "He Found Out Too Late Just How Good an Artist Mabel Was" (1964) (online HERE; go to text page 105)
  (17) "A Day of Encounters" (EQMM, February 1972)
  (18) "Sequel to Murder" (1951).
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Resources:
If you're interested in learning more about the prolific Anthony Gilbert, there's a lot to see on the Interblab:
  (1) Wikipedia (HERE).

  (2) The GAD Wiki (HERE).
  (3) Authors' Calendar (HERE).
  (4) A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection (HERE).
  (5) Pretty Sinister Books (HERE).
  (6) Beneath the Stains of Time (HERE).
  (7) Mystery*File (HERE).
  (8) The Passing Tramp (HERE).
  (9) The Grandest Game in the World (HERE).
  (10) In Reference to Murder (HERE).
  (11) crossexaminingcrime (HERE), (HERE), and (HERE).
  (12) Vintage Pop Fictions (HERE).
  (13) My Reader's Block (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), and (HERE).
  (14) The IMDb (HERE).

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