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Author | Anthony Gilbert |
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Language | English |
Series | Arthur Crook |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher |
Collins Crime Club (UK) Smith and Durrell (US) |
Publication date | 1944 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | He Came by Night |
Followed by | Don't Open the Door |
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.
James Chigwell a prolific blackmailer is discovered bludgeoned to death. The murderer may be any one of his large number of victims.
![]() First Edition (US) | |
Author | Anthony Gilbert |
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Language | English |
Series | Arthur Crook |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher |
Collins Crime Club (UK) Smith and Durrell (US) |
Publication date | 1944 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | He Came by Night |
Followed by | Don't Open the Door |
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.
James Chigwell a prolific blackmailer is discovered bludgeoned to death. The murderer may be any one of his large number of victims.