The Body on the Beam is a 1932 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

[1] It is the sixth of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation Arthur Crook.

[2] Florence Penny, one of the lodgers at 39 Menzies Street, a rundown London boarding house, is discovered in her room one morning hanging from a beam.

At first considered a tragic suicide, Inspector Field's enquiries begin to throw an air of mystery over the case.

Fortunately Scott Egerton is on hand to solve the case.