Lucy Beatrice Malleson

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Lucy Beatrice Malleson (born February 15, 1899 in London , † December 9, 1973 ibid) was a British author of crime novels , which she published under various pseudonyms , including Anthony Gilbert and Anne Meredith . She was a cousin of actor and screenwriter Miles Malleson .

biography

When her father, a stockbroker, lost his job, Lucy Malleson began working as a typist . She also wrote poetry and published her first detective novel The Man Who Was London in 1925 under the pseudonym J Kilmeny Keith . In total, she wrote more than 60 crime novels over the course of her life, most of them as Anthony Gilbert.

Some of her books have been made into films, for example The Vanishing Corpse (1941) as They Met in the Dark (1943), The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball (1943) as Candles at Nine (1944) or The Woman in Red (1941) as My Name Is Julia Ross ( My name is Julia Ross , 1945).

Her short stories Door to a Different World (1970) and Fifty Years After (1973) were nominated for the Edgar Award .

The Secret of the Grays was published again in 2017, originally as Portrait of a Murderer: a Christmas crime story 1933 under the pseudonym Anne Meredith. Due to its great success, Death in Fancy Dress (Anthony Gilbert, 1933) and the autobiography Three-a-Penny (Anne Meredith, 1940) were reissued.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Anthony Gilbert Bibliography on the pages of Classic Crime Fiction (English)
  2. Anthony Gilbert Filmography on the website of the British Film Institute (English)
  3. Jake Kerridge: Three-a-Penny by Lucy Malleson, review: How to beat the boys in the Golden Age of Crime . The Telegraph , December 15, 2019 (English)