The Wicked Flee is a 1940 mystery crime novel by the British writer Anne Hocking.Hubin p.57 It was the second novel in a long-running series featuring her detective character Chief Inspector William Austen of Scotland Yard.Reilly p.794
Adaptation In 1957 it was adapted into the British film The Surgeon's Knife directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook.Goble p.224
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Hubin, Allen J. 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980. Garland Pub., 1988. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.