Michael Gilbert Books In Order
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Close Quarters | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Never Looked Inside / He Didn't Mind Danger | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doors Open | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smallbone Deceased | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Has Deep Roots | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear to Tread | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Inspector Mercer Books
The Body Of A Girl | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Favourite Girl / The Killing of Katie Steelstock | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Patrick Petrella Books
Blood And Judgement | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Petrella At Q | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Petrella | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roller-Coaster | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Luke Pagan Books
Ring Of Terror | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Into Battle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over and Out | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sky High / The Country-House Burglar | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Be Shot For Six Pence | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After The Fine Weather | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crack In The Teacup | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dust and the Heat / Overdrive | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Etruscan Net / The Family Tomb | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ninety Second Tiger | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flashpoint | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Of The Twelfth | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Empty House | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Throw / End-Game | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Seraphim | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inner Landscape | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Journey Home | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paint Gold And Blood | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Queen Against Karl Mullen | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Game Without Rules | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stay Of Execution | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amateur in Violence | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr Calder And Mr Behrens | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anything For A Quiet Life and Other Mysteries | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Hated Banks | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pity About the Girl & Other Stories | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mathematics of Murder | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Curious Conspiracy And Other Crimes | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Even Murderers Take Holidays | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Murder of Diana Devon and Other Mysteries | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Could Not Sleep and Other Mysteries | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of British Library Crime Classics Books
The Notting Hill Mystery | (1862) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Female Detective | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poisoned Chocolates Case | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It Walks by Night | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in the Channel | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castle Skull | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Incredible Crime | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder of a Lady | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Gallows | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Z Murders | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Division Bell Mystery | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Portrait of a Murderer | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Fancy Dress | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Family Matters | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hog's Back Mystery | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Underground | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scarweather | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of an Airman | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spy Paramount | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 12.30 from Croydon | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chianti Flask | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lake District Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Cherwell | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cornish Coast Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traitor | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Santa Klaus Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sussex Downs Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in White | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bats in the Belfry | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheltenham Square Murder | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Excellent Intentions | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Museum | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antidote to Venom | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Guests | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Port of London Murders | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Dead | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Verdict of Twelve | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Scream in Soho | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Busybody | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somebody at the Door | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Checkmate to Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fell Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder by Matchlight | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble on the Thames | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire in the Thatch | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Makes a Prophet | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smallbone Deceased | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calamity in Kent | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Has Deep Roots | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Mill-Race | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossed Skis | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Riviera | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Colour Of Murder | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Egg | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Progress of a Crime | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spoilt Kill | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body in the Dumb River | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Due to a Death | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfeit of Suspects | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Belting Inheritance | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Best Friend | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Web | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resorting to Murder | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Nights | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Manor | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serpents in Eden | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimson Snow | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreign Bodies | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Arm of the Law | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miraculous Mysteries | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Continental Crimes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Tracks | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Measure of Malice | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two-Way Murder | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Verdict of Thirteen | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Malicious Little Mysteries | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Handle with Care: Frightening Stories | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who... | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fifty Best Mysteries | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Law and Order | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder On The Railways | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Tracks | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Michael was born in Lincolnshire, the UK in 1912; he studied in Sussex before joining London University where he graduated with a distinction in LLB in 1937. Gilbert was a founder/member of the British Crime Writers Association and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America -in 1988, an accomplishment that was long past due. In 1980, Gilbert received the queen’s honor of a knight as a Commander in the Order of the British Empire. In 1990, he won the Life Achievement Anthony Award at the Boucheron in London. Gilbert made his writing debut novel in in 1947 with Close Quarters, and from that, point forward has turned out as one of the greatest versatile writers in British Mystery novels. Michael passed away in 2006.He is best remembered as the British grandmaster writer in criminal and thriller books written during the fifties through to the nineties.
Michael Gilbert Best Book
Smallbone Deceased #4 Inspector Hazelrigg
Horniman, Birley, and Craine is a well- established a law office in London, representing significant expert litigation in trusts, deeds, and legacies. The senior partner, Abel Horniman, has recently passed away and they have employed another legal counselor, one Mr. Henry Bohun, an actuary and a statistics researcher/ analyst. The firm is by all accounts back on track when a grim and stunning revelation is made. The first chapter begins with an exceptional capital resource revealed and the lawyers have a murder case to solve. Inspector Hazzlerigg conducts the investigation and enrolls Bohun to help since the two men share military experience, and the mathematician-turned-legal advisor is – too valuable for the plot – undoubtedly free of doubt. The team of experts exquisitely tackles and solves the case and soon after the successful conclusion of this case another murder takes place.
The novel feels out-dated – maybe because of the written work style. It appears considerably older than its 66 years since its first publication, regardless of whether there are many contemporary books distributed in the 1950s. This isn’t an issue by any stretch of the imagination, apparently, as the novel offers a distinctive depiction of the late 1940s in the UK, the seasons of rationed foods and constant power cuts. The characters “tune in to the wireless,” and I am interested the number of youngsters today that comprehends what “a wireless” is. We discover that the business norms and traditions of an old-style British law office way present a more intriguing scene than the criminal plot.
I liked the original portrayal and the superbly rich parlance: such as a “puisne contract,” what a “conveyancer” does, and what “muniments” are. I discovered the “negative Aschheim-Zondek” too, and the money related trick to the crime is entirely shrewdly. More shocking is the part of Mr. Bohun’s role in the plot? It appears to be repetitive and his part as a mathematician ought to be a confusing daze for the reader.
Henry Bohun recently began working as a lawyer with the respectable firm of Horniman, Birley, and Craine when they discover a dead body in a deed box. The deceased Mr. Smallbone’s quality debilitates to decimate the association’s notoriety mainly as the police – in the individual of Inspector Hazlerigg – begin imagining that the demise needs to have been an inside activity. Hazlerigg chooses to believe the delightful Henry Bohun as he began with the firm after the murder and Henry get himself engaged with the examination and thoroughly appreciating it and giving some all-around coordinated data to Hazelrigg. This is an elegantly composed and quick-paced novel with a splendid picture of life in a specialist’s office. I adored the composition and the cleverness, and I thought the book was very much plotted, and I surely didn’t work out who the killer was, however, the signs are there. This is a superbly written and fast-paced novel with a brilliant portrayal of life in a reputable law firm. I loved the humor and the style of writing. The plot worked well within the book chapters carefully solving all the murders brought to the attention of the law firm.
The Black Seraphim
Youthful pathologist James Scotland is encouraged to take an extended get-away in the wake of crumbling before an address corridor brimming with restorative understudies. He comes back to Melchester Close, a Cathedral people group where he spent an agreeable term as a coach. There he is invited by old companions, and pulled in to Dean’s flawless girl; however, he rapidly gets himself observer to the aggravating undercurrents among the Chapter’s new pioneers. The Archdeacon is keen on money-related matters first, while the Dean is interested in Faith-related issues, above all else. The inhabitants and priests of the Close and school have favored one side, and James must provide a cautious course to abstain from being drawn into the superficial political verbal confrontation.
Meanwhile, Melchester’s town council members push to persuade the cathedral pioneers to offer land for development structure advancement. The Archdeacon is in support, yet the Dean opposes the idea. At the point when a murder occurs, Dr. Scotland must find the killer – despite the fact that his new lover may have a hand in the death and perhaps helped the killer get away. This is an incredibly charming mystery book, yet, the killer’s intentions appeared to be slim (not convincing enough). Nonetheless, there is much science here as Dr. Scotland groups with different crime scene investigation specialists to find the toxin used to murder the casualty. Furthermore, not surprisingly, Gilbert’s sublime characters carry the reader along at a breaking pace.
The Night of the Twelfth
This book is an odd blend of police procedural and government-funded school narrative. Somebody has been kidnapping and murdering young boys. After the third casualty, a trawl barely misses getting the killer; the police set out to a dangerous assignment of filtering through what they know and what they think, imploring that they’ll come down with the killer before another terrible death takes place. Meanwhile, Peter Manifold joins a new school teaching staff at a boarding school for wealthy kids. He’s more realistic and direct than the standard educators. However, he’s excellent with the young boys and exceptionally wise. One of the exceptional students is the child of the Israeli ambassador, and pressure with terrorists from the Middle East fear causes tension for his wellbeing (the novel was composed in the 1970s). Gilbert expertly handles a sizable cast of characters, changing the perspective in about each scene. The aspects are always practical and credible, making the entire story a fascinating read.