The Scarlet Button is a 1944 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

[1] It is the fourteenth in her series featuring the London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unscrupulous detectives of the Golden Age.

[2] It was published in the United States, initially under the same name and later with the alternative title Murder is Cheap.

James Chigwell a prolific blackmailer is discovered bludgeoned to death.

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