A Nice Cup of Tea (novel)

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A Nice Cup of Tea
First edition
AuthorAnthony Gilbert
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArthur Crook
GenreMystery thriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date
1950
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.