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Publication Order of Inspector Hazelrigg Books

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

The Shot in Question (1963)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Fraudsters: Six Against the Law (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of British Library Crime Classics Books

The Notting Hill Mystery (By:Charles Warren Adams) (1862)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Female Detective (By:Andrew Forrester) (1864)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (By:Anthony Berkeley) (1929)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
It Walks by Night (By:John Carr) (1930)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (By:Miles Burton) (1930)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Castle Skull (By:John Carr) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery in the Channel (By:Freeman Crofts) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Incredible Crime (By:Lois Austen-Leigh) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder of a Lady (By:Anthony Wynne) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Lost Gallows (By:John Carr) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Z Murders (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (By:John Carr) (1932)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Division Bell Mystery (By:Ellen Wilkinson) (1932)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Portrait of a Murderer (By:Anne Meredith) (1933)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death in Fancy Dress (By:Anthony Gilbert) (1933)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Family Matters (By:Anthony Rolls) (1933)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hog's Back Mystery (By:Freeman Crofts) (1933)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Murder of My Aunt (By:Richard Hull) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder Underground (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Scarweather (By:Anthony Rolls) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death of an Airman (By:Christopher St. John Sprigg) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Spy Paramount (By:E. Phillips Oppenheim) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 12.30 from Croydon (By:Freeman Crofts) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Chianti Flask (By:Marie Belloc Lowndes) (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Lake District Murder (By:John Bude) (1935)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death on the Cherwell (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1935)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cornish Coast Murder (By:John Bude) (1935)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Traitor (By:Sydney Horler) (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Santa Klaus Murder (By:Mavis Doriel Hay) (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sussex Downs Murder (By:John Bude) (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder in Piccadilly (By:Charles Kingston) (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (By:Miles Burton) (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery in White (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1937)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bats in the Belfry (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1937)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cheltenham Square Murder (By:John Bude) (1937)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Excellent Intentions (By:Richard Hull) (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder in the Museum (By:John Rowland) (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Antidote to Venom (By:Freeman Crofts) (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Thirteen Guests (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Port of London Murders (By:Josephine Bell) (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (By:Leonard R. Gribble) (1939)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seven Dead (By:J. Jefferson Farjeon) (1939)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Verdict of Twelve (By:Raymond Postgate) (1940)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Scream in Soho (By:John G. Brandon) (1940)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death of a Busybody (By:George Bellairs) (1942)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (By:George Bellairs) (1942)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Somebody at the Door (By:Raymond Postgate) (1943)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (By:Nap Lombard) (1943)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Checkmate to Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1944)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fell Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1944)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder by Matchlight (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1945)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Trouble on the Thames (By:Victor Bridges) (1945)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fire in the Thatch (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1946)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death Makes a Prophet (By:John Bude) (1947)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Smallbone Deceased (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Calamity in Kent (By:John Rowland) (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 (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Crossed Skis (By:Carol Carnac) (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death on the Riviera (By:John Bude) (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Colour Of Murder (By:Julian Symons) (1957)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Christmas Egg (By:Mary Kelly) (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Progress of a Crime (By:Julian Symons) (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (By:Gil North) (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff (By:Gil North) (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Spoilt Kill (By:Mary Kelly) (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Body in the Dumb River (By:George Bellairs) (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Due to a Death (By:Mary Kelly) (1963)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Surfeit of Suspects (By:George Bellairs) (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Belting Inheritance (By:Julian Symons) (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Best Friend (By:George Sims) (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The End of the Web (By:George Sims) (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Resorting to Murder (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Silent Nights (By:Martin Edwards) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Murder at the Manor (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Serpents in Eden (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Crimson Snow (By:Martin Edwards) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Foreign Bodies (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Arm of the Law (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Miraculous Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Continental Crimes (By:Martin Edwards) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blood on the Tracks (By:Martin Edwards) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (By:Martin Edwards) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (By:Kate Jackson) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (By:Martin Edwards) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Measure of Malice (By:Martin Edwards) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (By:Kate Jackson) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Two-Way Murder (By:E.C.R. Lorac) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (By:Martin Edwards) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1940)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Down by the Old Blood Stream (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice. (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 (By:Alfred Hitchcock) (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958(1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read With the Door Locked - Book 2(1975)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
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.

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