production received poor reviews and lasted only five performances. While Malleson's books sold well enough to keep publishers asking for more, she was never a best-seller. However, in 2017 interest in her was revived through the reissue of the Anne Meredith crime novel Portrait of a Murderer under the British Library's Crime Classics imprint. Martin Edwards believes this novel to be "a major departure. Dostoevsky was her model, although Anthony Berkeley's influence was also in play." Although quickly forgotten in 1933 it did win the praise of Dorothy L Sayers. The reissue sold many more copies than the original edition, and was followed by a reissue of the 1933 Anthony Gilbert novel, Death in Fancy Dress, as well as the Anne Meredith autobiography Three-a-Penny in December 2019. The title of the latter was taken from a remark made to her by Sayers: “Although authors are three-a-penny to us, they are quite exciting to other people.” Three-a-Penny was also serialised on BBC Radio 4. The book also paints a vivid portrait of poverty between the wars in the East End of London. Bibliography Novels as J Kilmeny Keith The Man Who Was London, 1925 The Sword of Harlequin, 1927 Novels as Anthony Gilbert (alternative titles for US publication) Novels as Anne Meredith Autobiography, as Anne Meredith Three-a-Penny, 1940, reissued 2019 Short Stories as Anthony Gilbert Radio Plays as Anthony Gilbert Radio Plays as Anne Meredith The Adventurer. BBC Home Service, 29 March 1941 The Rich Woman. BBC Home Service, 9 July 1943 The Innocent Bride. BBC Home Service, 18 January 1953 The Sisters. BBC Home Service, 12 October 1955 References External links 1899 births 1973 deaths Members of the Detection Club British crime fiction writers Women crime fiction writers 20th-century British novelists British women novelists 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers