Something Nasty in the Woodshed is a 1942 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

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

[2] The novel was adapted by actor Dennis Hoey into a play named The Haven.

With Melville Cooper playing the lead role it opened on Broadway in November 1946, but closed after five performances following poor reviews.

[3] Agatha Forbes answers an advertisement through a matrimonial agency from a man seeking a woman of independent means.