The Visitor

About this book

Margaret Ross thought Alfred Samson was a nasty-looking little man, and she was quite right. He was on nasty business: blackmail. Her son, Philip, not quite twenty and a student at Oxton University, had been having fun and games with Mr. Samson's wife, Annette. Even more of a tiger than most mothers, Margaret is prepared to do anything to rescue her son. But when Alfred Samson turns up dead, she finds herself in more trouble than ever. It's a situation made to order for Arthur Crook, for as they say about him, "Arthur Crook can bend the evidence to suit the individual curve." Dangers gather like wasps around Margaret, and it will take all Crook's genius to get to her in time.

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About the author

Anthony Gilbert

1899 – 9 December 1973

Pen name of English crime author Lucy Beatrice Malleson (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gilbert_(author)>Wikipedia</a>). 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 Uni…