Portrait of a Murderer (novel)
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| Author | Anne Meredith |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz Reynal (US) |
Publication date | 1933 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Portrait of a Murderer is a 1933 detective novel by Anne Meredith, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson best known for writing as Anthony Gilbert.[1] It was a stand-alone novel by the author at the time known for her series featuring Scott Egerton and later for her Arthur Crook mystery thrillers. It was reissued in 2017 by British Library Publishing. It broadly takes the structure of an inverted detective story, as from near the beginning the identity of the murderer is revealed.[2]
