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A Nice Cup of Tea

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14th February 2015

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471909931

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After years of caring for her often impossible mother, Alice is finally free. But an unexpected legacy gives her more than she bargained for…
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club


When Alice Hunter’s mother dies, after grimly clinging on for eighty-odd years, it is enough for genteel Alice just to be free. But she soon becomes lonely, having few points of contact with the people in the cheap boarding houses which are all she can afford. Then comes news of a legacy, and Alice’s soul rises as she travels to the family’s lawyers in Bath.

Her new life is not what she expects, however, and she is lost in a fog of human misunderstanding, hatred and deceit. A nice cup of tea, stirred by detective Arthur Crook, is what she will need to put things right . . .

Reviews

SUNDAY TIMES
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
SUNDAY EXPRESS
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
Inkquilletc.blogspot
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
mysteryfile.com
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