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Author | Anthony Gilbert |
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Language | English |
Series | Scott Egerton |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1935 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | An Old Lady Dies |
The Man Who Was Too Clever is a 1935 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. [1] It is the tenth and last in a series of novels featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton. [2] The following year she introduced a new character, the unscrupulous solicitor Arthur Crook, in Murder by Experts.
Helen Paget is found shot dead in a private room of the Apsley Hotel in London. Her murderer has developed a very complex plot to commit the killing without being caught, but he is too clever for his own good.
![]() First edition | |
Author | Anthony Gilbert |
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Language | English |
Series | Scott Egerton |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1935 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | An Old Lady Dies |
The Man Who Was Too Clever is a 1935 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. [1] It is the tenth and last in a series of novels featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton. [2] The following year she introduced a new character, the unscrupulous solicitor Arthur Crook, in Murder by Experts.
Helen Paget is found shot dead in a private room of the Apsley Hotel in London. Her murderer has developed a very complex plot to commit the killing without being caught, but he is too clever for his own good.