Death at Four Corners
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‘Wel-written, clever and unusual’New York-Herald TribuneLucy Malleson’sthird detective novel under her most popular pseudonym, Anthony Gilbert, back in print for the first time in almost a century‘Netly contrived’Times Literary Supplement‘Exellent…well-worked out and logical’Boston Transcript‘Anabsorbing story’New York TimesAmateur sleuth Scott Egerton’sthird caseSir Gervase and Lady Blount are hosting a weekend house party at their Four Corners country estate on the South Coast of England. While walking the nearby cliffs, one of their guests, Dr Terence Ambrose, accompanied by sometime amateur sleuth and Member of Parliament, Scott Egerton, make a horrifying discovery. On the cliff-side, high above Mermaids’Rocks, they find a corpse. The dead man is lying face down, grotesquely spread-eagled, and dressed in a clerical collar and vest. He has been shot through the head. Clutched in his cold, dead hand is a rather large black bone button. Scotland Yard is called in and Detective Inspector James Bremner investigates, ably assisted by the astute and logical Mr Egerton.About the AuthorAnthony Gilbert was one of four pseudonyms adopted by Lucy Beatrice Malleson, the English novelist who wrote over seventy detective and crime novels between 1925 and 1972. From the age of seventeen, she wrote verse and short pieces for Punch and various literary weeklies. She also wrote as Anne Meredith, J. Kilmeny Keith and Lucy Egerton, but settled on the Anthony Gilbert pen name for her most popular