| The Wicked Flee | |
| Author: | Anne Hocking |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chief Inspector William Austen |
| Genre: | Mystery crime |
| Release Date: | 1940 |
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| Preceded By: | Old Mrs. Fitzgerald |
| Followed By: | Miss Milverton |
The Wicked Flee is a 1940 mystery crime novel by the British writer Anne Hocking.[1] It was the second novel in a long-running series featuring her detective character Chief Inspector William Austen of Scotland Yard.[2]
In 1957 it was adapted into the British film The Surgeon's Knife directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook.[3]