An Old Lady Dies

An Old Lady Dies is a 1934 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the ninth of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation Arthur Crook. It was reviewed in the Sunday Times by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Synopsis
A wealthy old lady enjoys keeping her impecunious relatives on tenterhooks about her will, enjoying the power she wields over them. When she dies from an overdose of morphine her niece is arrested by the police.