The Most Underrated Crime Fiction Novelist Ever
That would be Michael Gilbert, author of some of the best mysteries you have never read. It torques me mightily that he is not better known on this side of the pond. A while back I stumbled across a...
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Fear to Tread by Michael Gilbert If ever there was an author whose works cried out to be instantly uploaded to Kindle, Michael Gilbert is him. Fear to Tread is one of four or five (or six, or seven) of...
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The Empty House by Michael Gilbert Brilliant genetic scientist Dr. Alexander Wolfe drives his car over a cliff one evening in southeastern England, and insurance adjuster Peter Manciple comes along...
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The Family Tomb by Michael Gilbert Robert Broke moves to Florence after the tragic death of his wife and unborn child, and stumbles into a conspiracy to fake and sell Etruscan artifacts about which he...
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Overdrive by Michael Gilbert Oliver Nugent went to war and the German Army never knew what hit it. He came home and the British business community never knew what hit it. Let’s let the author’s prose...
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“Like a wasp eating marmalade,” whispered Mrs. Havelock.”
Young Katie Steelstock, back in her home village of Hannington from her TV role in London as Britain’s sweetheart, is brutally murdered after a small-town dance. Her lover stands accused but not so...
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He doesn’t quite run away to join the circus, but close
I’m not a big fan of short stories–I like the elbow room a novel gives my imagination–but I’ll read pretty much anything by Michael Gilbert. I wasn’t disappointed here, in a collection of shorts about...
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As she advanced she crepitated.
Michael Gilbert’s Death Has Deep Roots has more hats than heads to wear them. It’s a courtroom drama with the accused as the least part of the story. It’s a locked room mystery with an entire hotel...
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Paddy relapsed into well-disciplined silence.
Another little gem of crime fiction by Michael Gilbert, he of The Night of the Twelfth and Fear to Tread and The Long Journey Home and The Queen Against Karl Mullen and so many more titles. If you...
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