title: Tales from The Blue: Recollections of a Homicide Detective
author: Joseph Anthony
description: Joseph Anthony is the pen name of an internationally-respected scientist who has published extensively in the scientific literature and written a number of textbooks and contributed chapters to many specialized monographs in science and the biomedical field. He now lives in Ocala, Florida. This is his fourth non-scientific book. Gary B. Hoover is a retired police officer from Baltimore, Maryland and now lives in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hoover served for nearly 30 years as a patrol officer, a vice squad detective and then a homicide detective. Mr. Anthony and Mr. Hoover have been close friends for several years and they have laughed together, cried together and shared many thoughts and experiences over the years. This book, together with Guilty but Innocent, is the product of numerous conversations over shared cups of coffee, spicy Buffalo wings, fish and chips and sundry other meals.
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  A NICE LITTLE KILLING
  
  Anthony Gilbert
  A NICE LITTLE KILLING
  When the Bankses' Dutch au pair was
  stood up by the boyfriend with whom
  she had arranged to go away secretly
  while the family were on holiday, she
  could not have foreseen that it would
  lead to her meeting Arthur Crook. She
  certainly could not have foreseen that
  she would shortly need the lawyer-
  detective's services when she sneaked
  back to the house to find it burgled
  and the housekeeper's body in the
  broom cupboard.
  Crook was needed more than ever
  when there was a second murder in
  the village, and as always he steals
  the show, though this time young
  Dawn and Coral Banks run him a
  pretty close second, both for their
  engaging personalities and for their
  effectiveness in thwarting crime.
  Anthony Gilbert (1899-1973) was
  the pseudonym of Lucy Malleson,
  who also wrote novels under the name
  ofAnne Meredith. She also wrote a
  number of radio plays and
  an autobiography.
  A Nice Little Killing features her
  barrister-detective