The Innocent Bottle Author:Anthony Gilbert Anthony Gilbert was born Lucy Beatrice Malleson in Upper Norwood, London; the city remained her home for the rest of her life. Ignoring her mother's plans to make her a schoolteacher, she fulfilled her own ambition as a writer. — Writing as Anthony Gilbert, she created private detective Arthur G. Crook -- the self-proclaimed "Criminals' Hope and ... more »Judges Despair" -- the popular leading character in The Innocent Bottle.
Originally published in England in 1948 as "Lift Up The Lid," the mystery was reprinted in the U.S. under this new title.« less