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Death in the Blackout

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14th April 2013

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471909733

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In the darkness of World War Two, a murderer strikes…
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

‘No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant’ Sunday Express

‘He stood very still for a moment. He said he had a sixth sense that warned him of danger. The fact that more murderous attempts had been made on his life did not affect his belief in his instinct. He said that in his profession a man had to harden himself to take risks. That was what his clients paid him for, “and,” he would add, “they pay damn well.” ‘

Death in the Blackout takes place in the heart of World War II and opens as a bomb drops uncomfortably close to detective Arthur Crook’s London flat, setting off a mysterious chain of events.

Reviews

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