Death in the Wrong Room
Death in the Wrong Room is a 1947 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age. Synopsis. Shortly after the Second World War the domineering Lady Bute comes to live as a paying guest at the home built by Colonel Anstruther and now run by his daughter. Her murder threatens to unravel secrets best kept buried. Death in the Wrong Room Death