Download or read book Petrella At Q written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Petrella finds himself dealing with arson, blackmail, fraud, forgery and murder. The Thames is a focus for some of the stories, as it is convenient for the dumping of a body and also for arrivals from abroad. This is a fitting accompaniment to the stories contained in the other Petrella volumes.
Download or read book Petrella At Q written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Petrella finds himself dealing with arson, blackmail, fraud, forgery and murder. The Thames is a focus for some of the stories, as it is convenient for the dumping of a body and also for arrivals from abroad. This is a fitting accompaniment to the stories contained in the other Petrella volumes.
Download or read book Petrella at Q written by Michael Francis Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Petrella at Q written by Michael Gilbert and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1988-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen Against Karl Mullen written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Mullen is a brutal South African secret policeman in Great Britain to seek the extradition of a black activist. There is an accusation of shoplifting and the witness to this crime ends up dead. The lawyers games and stances begin ... This is a novel about courtroom drama and the seedier underbelly of the law. Justice, however, must prevail.
Download or read book Paint Gold And Blood written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man stumbles across a conspiracy to steal an Italian triptych, little realising that years later it may hold the key to his future wellbeing. Meanwhile, he deals with the embezzlement of church funds, and the decoding of Pepys writing, but all pales into insignificance when he tackles an art smuggling ring used to finance terrorism.
Download or read book Stay Of Execution written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gilbert was never afraid to attack unnecessary bureaucracy, and did not cover up the seedier side of the law, or fail to show justice does not always prevail. The general themes can be found in this volume. ‘Back on the Shelf’, in which less than scrupulous lawyers get away with it, is regarded as a classic.
Download or read book The Killing Of Katie Steelstock written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the investigation progresses the reader is not fooled into taking an incorrect conclusion, but that is not to say the ending is perhaps one of the most ingenious and surprising to be found in this genre. Full of detail and strong rounded characters.
Download or read book Game Without Rules written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Calder lives with a golden deerhound named Rasselas. Mr. Behrens keeps bees. No one would suspect the pair are in fact agents and often tasked with jobs that no one else can take on. They are dangerous. Their adventures in this series of thrillers show the author to have a clear grasp of counterintelligence operations.
Download or read book They Never Looked Inside written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel once again features Inspector Hazlerigg. It is a gangster suspense thriller about the post-war black market. There is robbery, murder, and smuggling in a volume that contains all of the ingredients of a first class tale.
Download or read book Mr Calder And Mr Behrens written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More short stories about the deceptively harmless but sometimes lethal pair of agents, Calder and Behrens. The first story deals with Behrens pre-Calder days inside wartime Germany, and the adventures progress through time to the late twentieth century. The pair are ruthless in disposing of wrongdoers and enemies of the state.
Download or read book Anything For A Quiet Life Other Mysteries written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas Pickett, lawyer, leaves the pressure of a London practice behind to set up a new modest office in a quiet seaside resort. He soon finds that he is involved with very odd and sometimes dangerous cases, ranging from an incredible courtroom drama involving a gipsy queen to terrorist thugs who make their demands at gunpoint.
Download or read book The Ninety Second Tiger written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Greest has a TV adventure series. Unexpectedly he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that a Sheik is in the middle of a small war needs a military advisor and wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent ...
Download or read book New York Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Englishmen of Mystery written by Earl F. Bargainnier and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
Download or read book The Man Who Hated Banks Other Mysteries written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazlerigg, Bohun, Mercer and Petrella all feature in turn in this collection of eighteen short stories; police procedurals and action packed thrillers. Why did the man rob the bank? How could a man disappear in a deserted street? And sixteen more!
