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<i>The Scarlet Button</i>

The Scarlet Button

1944 novel

The Scarlet Button is a 1944 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.[1] It is the fourteenth in her series featuring the London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unscrupulous detectives of the Golden Age.[2] It was published in the United States, initially under the same name and later with the alternative title Murder is Cheap.

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Synopsis

James Chigwell a prolific blackmailer is discovered bludgeoned to death. The murderer may be any one of his large number of victims.

References

  1. [1]
    Reilly p.660
  2. [2]
    Murphy p.120

Bibliography

  • Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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