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  • Close Quarters

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Hazlerigg
    It has been more than a year since Cannon Whyte fell 103 feet from the cathedral gallery, yet unease still casts a shadow over the peaceful lives of the Close’s inhabitants. In an apparently separate incident, head verger Appledown is being persecuted: a spate of anonymous letters and random acts of vandalism imply that he is inefficient and immoral. But then the notes turn threatening, and when ... Read more

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  • The Crack In The Teacup

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Barhaven is on the south coast within commuting distance from London. It is, however, a fairly sleepy place and it seems incredulous that it could be the kind of town where the local councillors could manage to line their own pockets. However, there is something odd about the borough engineers behaviour, and it seems strange that the owner of the local amusement park is unknown, and the Town Clerk ... Read more

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  • The Empty House

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Dr. Alexander Wolfe, a top genetic scientist – a key figure in British Biological Warfare Research- seemingly plunges over a cliff in his car. His body is never recovered and it emerges his life was recently insured for a considerable sum. Accordingly, Peter Manciple, an insurance loss adjuster from a fairly cautious firm, is sent to investigate. There is romance, possible gang involvement in ... Read more

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  • The Black Seraphim

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    James Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries, and murder. He is called upon to investigate and finds that some very curious alliances between the church, state and business exist. With modern forensic pathology he unravels the ... Read more

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  • After The Fine Weather

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    When Laura Hart travels to Austria to visit her brother, vice-consul of Lienz in the Tyrol, she briefly meets an American who warns her of the mounting political tension. Neo-Nazis are stirring trouble in the province, and xenophobia is rife between the Austrians who control the area and the Italian locals. Then Laura experiences the troubles first-hand, a shocking incident that suggests Hofrat ... Read more

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  • Game Without Rules

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Series Book 1 - Calder and Behrens
    Mr. Calder lived with a golden deerhound named Rasselas in a cottage in Kent. Mr. Behrens lives with his aunt and keeps bees. No one would in the least suspect that the pair are in fact agents for the British Joint Services Standing Committee and they are often tasked with jobs that no one else can take on – simply because of the extreme nature of the action needed. They are dangerous – and they ... Read more

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  • Smallbone Deceased

    A London Mystery

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    A tale of lethal events at a legal firm by a writer acclaimed as "perhaps the best living master of the classic English murder mystery" ( The New Yorker).One of the Crime Writers' Association's Top 100 Crime Novels of All TimeOne of the Mystery Writers of America's Top 100 Mystery Novels of All TimeHorniman, Birley and Craine is a respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest of society ... Read more

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  • Night Of The Twelfth

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Two children have been murdered. When a third is discovered – the tortured body of ten-year-old Ted Lister – the Home Counties police are compelled to escalate their search for the killer, and Operation Huntsman is intensified. Meanwhile, a new master arrives at Trenchard House School. Kenneth Manifold, a man with a penchant for discipline, keeps a close eye on the boys, particularly Jared Sacher, ... Read more

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  • Blood And Judgement

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Series Book 1 - Patrick Petrella
    When the wife of a recently escaped prisoner is found murdered and partially buried near a reservoir, Patrick Petrella, a Metropolitan Police Inspector, is called in. Suspicion falls on the escaped convict, but what could have been his motive? Petrella meets resistance from top detectives at the Yard who would prefer to keep the inspector out of the limelight, but he is determined to solve the ... Read more

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  • Body Of A Girl

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Detective Chief Inspector Mercer is called to the scene when a skeleton of a girl is found on Westlaugh Island in the upper reaches of the River Thames. What appears to be a straightforward and routine investigation, however, leads to unexpected events and a string of unlikely characters, including a lawyer and a one armed garage proprietor. Nothing seems to fit together and it seems the sleepy ... Read more

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  • Death in Captivity

    A Second World War Mystery

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, this classic crime novel, featuring the challenges of World War II, was written in the golden age of detective fiction."Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat"— Daily TelegraphA man is found dead in an escape tunnel beneath an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an ... Read more

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  • Be Shot For Six Pence

    by Michael Gilbert ...
    A gripping spy thriller with a deserved reputation. Philip sees an announcement in 'The Times' from an old school friend who has instructed the newspaper to publish only if they don’t hear from him. This sets a trail running through Europe, with much of the action taking place on the Austro-Hungarian border. The Kremlin, defectors, agitators and the People’s Court set the background to a very ... Read more

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