Treason in My Breast | |
Author: | Anthony Gilbert |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Series: | Arthur Crook |
Genre: | Mystery thriller |
Publisher: | Collins Crime Club |
Release Date: | 1938 |
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Preceded By: | Murder Has No Tongue |
Followed By: | The Clock in the Hatbox |
Treason in My Breast is a 1938 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.[1] [2] It is the fourth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.[3] Crook became one of the established characters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, although in this case the novel was more similar to a Victorian melodrama than a conventional whodunnit.
From her window, a housewife believes she has witnessed the build-up to a murder of a young woman in the flat opposite. She calls in Arthur Crook to assist her in unravelling a seemingly ingenious attempt to steal a large inheritance.