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A Nice Cup of Tea (novel)

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A Nice Cup of Tea
First edition
AuthorAnthony Gilbert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1950
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byMurder Comes Home 
Followed byLady Killer 

A Nice Cup of Tea is a 1950 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Anthony Gilbert. It was published in the United States under the alternative title The Wrong Body.[1] It is the twenty fourth in the long-running series featuring the unscrupulous lawyer and detective Arthur Crook.

Television adaptation[edit]

In 1957 it was adapted into a British television film My Guess Would Be Murder, produced by the BBC and starring Nora Nicholson, Everley Gregg and Ethel Coleridge.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reilly, John M. (2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer. p. 660. ISBN 978-0312824181. LCCN 79092844. OL 4437992M.
  2. ^ Radio Times, Volume 134. 1957 p. 26.