Footsteps Behind Me is a 1953 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

It is the twenty seventh in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.

[1] Crook first appeared during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, but the series ran for several decades.

It was published in the United States under the alternative title Black Death.

[2] A blackmailer targets four people he knows will pay over large sums rather than have their secrets exposed.