An ordinary day – which turns to blackmail and murder.
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
What seemed like an ordinary phone call in the middle of the afternoon suddenly plunges its recipient, Simon Crete, into a plot of blackmail and murder.
‘Tell him it’s no use. I haven’t got it,’ the mystery woman’s voice cried desperately down the line. But who was she? And why was she ringing a man whom she had never seen?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
What seemed like an ordinary phone call in the middle of the afternoon suddenly plunges its recipient, Simon Crete, into a plot of blackmail and murder.
‘Tell him it’s no use. I haven’t got it,’ the mystery woman’s voice cried desperately down the line. But who was she? And why was she ringing a man whom she had never seen?
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Reviews
The plot is knife-edge tension all the way
Fast, light, likeable
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
Well-plotted, fast-moving - brilliant
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
Anthony Gilbert shared with other successful crime writers a combination of writing talent and clever plotting skills necessary to make it in detective fiction's Golden Age ... Along with Agatha Christie [he] had a talent to deceive
Anthony Gilbert's novels show the unsensational type of detective story at its best
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
