The Vanishing Corpse

The Vanishing Corpse
First edition
AuthorAnthony Gilbert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Arcadia Press (US)
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byDear Dead Woman 
Followed byThe Woman in Red 

The Vanishing Corpse is a 1941 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the eighth in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age.[1] It was published in the United States under the alternative title She Vanished in the Dawn.[2]

  1. ^ Murphy p.120
  2. ^ Reilly p.659