''The Body on the Beam'' is a 1932
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detective novel
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by
Anthony Gilbert, the
pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the sixth of ten novels in a series featuring her
amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation Arthur Crook.
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Synopsis
Florence Penny, one of the lodgers at 39 Menzies Street, a rundown London
boarding house, is discovered in her room one morning
hanging
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from a
beam
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. At first considered a tragic suicide, Inspector Field's enquiries begin to throw an air of mystery over the case. When he makes an arrest for murder, it is the wrong man. Fortunately Scott Egerton is on hand to solve the case.
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.
1932 British novels
British mystery novels
British thriller novels
Novels by Anthony Gilbert
Novels set in London
British detective novels
Collins Crime Club books
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