| The Man Who Was Too Clever | |
| Author: | Anthony Gilbert |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scott Egerton |
| Genre: | Mystery thriller |
| Release Date: | 1935 |
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| Preceded By: | An Old Lady Dies |
The Man Who Was Too Clever is a 1935 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.[1] It is the tenth and last in a series of novels featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton.[2] The following year she introduced a new character, the unscrupulous solicitor Arthur Crook, in Murder by Experts.
Helen Paget is found shot dead in a private room of the Apsley Hotel in London. Her murderer has developed a very complex plot to commit the killing without being caught, but he is too clever for his own good.