Treason in My Breast is a 1938 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.Reilly p.659The Spectator, Volume 160. F.C. Westley, 1938. p.982 It is the fourth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.Murphy p.120 Crook became one of the established characters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, although in this case the novel was more similar to a Victorian melodrama than a conventional whodunnit.
Synopsis From her window, a housewife believes she has witnessed the build-up to a murder of a young woman in the flat opposite. She calls in Arthur Crook to assist her in unravelling what seems to be an ingenious attempt to steal a large inheritance.
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