What is it about brides and bottles? Or: why didn't she publish under her own name?
Anthony Gilbert was actually the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson, who was an English crime writer. Malleson also wrote fiction using the pen name Anne Meredith,.

Set of 2 mysteries by Anthony Gilbert. (Lucy Beatrice Malleson)

The Innocent Bottle. Bantam 851. 1950.  (I love this one!)

Murder Cheats the Bride. Bantam 138. 1948. Cover art by Casimer Norwaish using model Helen Tynan. His first cover for Bantam.

What is it about murder and water

front covers

detail. Cover art by Denver Gillen.

detail. Cover art is a photograph, reprinted on the back in black and white.

Back cover, Murder on the Purple Water

Back cover, The Girl on the Lonely Beach

Fred J. Cook. The Girl on the Lonely Beach. Ninth in a Series of Classic Murder Trials. Gold Medal 431. 1st printing 1954.

Frances Crane. Murder on the Purple Water. Bantam 874. 1951.

yet even more pulp fiction. 2 beauties.

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Samm Sinclair Baker. One Touch of Blood. Graphic Mystery. 1955.

William Ard. You Can't Stop Me. Popular Library 526. 1952.

yet more pulp fiction: suckers and temptresses

Robert O. Saber, Sucker Bait. Graphic Mystery 99. 1955.
Robert B. Sinclair. The Eleventh House. Pocket Book 881. 1951. (cover by George Erickson)

even more pulp fiction: the condemned by virtue of her very address series

Albert Conroy. Murder in Room 13. Gold Medal Book 806. 1st Printing 1958.
Harold R. Daniels. The Girl in 304. Dell First Edition A112. 1956.
Mel Heimer. The Girl in Murder Flat. Gold Medal Book 458. 1st Printing 1955.