Miss Pinnegar Disappears
Collins Harper (US) | |
Publication date | 1952 |
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Media type | |
Preceded by | Lady Killer |
Followed by | Footsteps Behind Me |
Miss Pinnegar Disappears is a 1952
Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the twenty sixth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.[1] Crook first appeared during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, but the series ran for several decades. It was published in the United States under the alternative title A Case for Mr. Crook.[2]
Synopsis
Crook meets Frances Pinnegar at a
nurse
so this hardly seems likely. However when trouble arises some months later she sends him an urgent phone message, but he gets there too late as she has already vanished.
References
Bibliography
- Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2. Salem Press, 1988.
- Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.