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The Black Stage

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14th April 2013

Price: £18.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781471909849

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Some men are born to be murdered
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

Lewis Bishop was born to be murdered – the perfect victim, a man whom many had every reason to hate and fear. When he is suddenly shot dead one night he leaves behind him only unpleasant memories, a flood of relief, and a pretty puzzle for the police – and a case for the irrepressible detective Arthur Crook . . .

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SUNDAY TIMES
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
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
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