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A Nice Cup of Tea
First edition
Author Anthony Gilbert
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1950
Media typePrint
Preceded by Murder Comes Home 
Followed by Lady 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

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

  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.