num_pages: 185
description: 'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant'~Sunday ExpressMargaret Fielding, the spouse of a prominent QC, stood trial for the homicide of her former spouse a decade ago. She was ultimately acquitted due to insufficient evidence. However, presently, someone is threatening to produce evidence that could potentially incriminate her. Fortunately, Margaret meets Arthur Crook, the detective lawyer to whom the innocent turn, never in vain. When her blackmailer is found murdered, just after she is seen, distraught, leaving the premises, it is to Crook that she confides her tale. But someone knows Crook by reputation, and is anxious that he does not take on Margaret's case.
language: English
title: Murder's a Waiting Game
titlecomplete: Murder's a Waiting Game (Arthur Crook #50)
ratings_count: 6
series: Arthur Crook
publisher: Random House