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 The Killing of Katie Steelstock written by Michael Francis Gilbert and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mutilated body of celebrity Katie Steelstock is found near a deserted boathouse, the people of West Hannington, a sleepy London suburb, become involved in a frantic search for the murderer
Download or read book Mystery Fanfare written by Michael L. Cook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Download or read book Death In Captivity 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: A suspected informer is found dead in a collapsed escape tunnel in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. So as to protect the tunnel the prisoners decide to move the body. But then the fascist captors declare the death to be murder and determine to execute the officer they suspect. It therefore becomes a race against time to find the true culprit.
Download or read book Death Has Deep Roots 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: Victoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of her lover. There are only five suspects including Lamartine. But evidence that doesn’t fit the police theory of the crime has been ignored, whilst all of the damming evidence is presented in isolation. There also appears to be links to gold smuggling. There is also a final twist and conclusion.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Anglo American Proverbs Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 7 No 1 January February 1983 written by Guy M. Townsend and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Fancier, Volume Seven Number One, January-February 1983, contains: "Captain Joseph T. Shaw's Black Mask Scrapbook," by E. R. Hagemann, "Detection by Other Means," by Bob Sampson, "Joe Orton's and Tom Stoppard's Burlesques of the Detective Genre," by Earl F. Bargainnier, "Bloody Balaclava: Charlotte MacLeod's Campus Comedy Mysteries," by Jane S. Bakerman and "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIII," by Barry Van Tilburg.
Download or read book Be Shot For Six Pence written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping spy thriller with a deserved reputation. Philip sees an announcement in ‘The Times’ from an old friend who has instructed the newspaper to publish only if they don’t hear from him. This sets a trail running through Europe, with the Kremlin, defectors, agitators and the People’s Court setting the background to a very realistic story ...
Download or read book The Black Seraphim written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With modern forensic pathology he unravels the unvarnished truth, but not before unexpected romance intervenes.
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 Flashpoint written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Dylan is an electoral favourite, the government’s golden boy. Jonas Killey is a small-time lawyer – determined, uncompromising and obsessed. He is hounding Dylan in the hope of bringing him into disrepute. Jonas suddenly finds himself pursued by those who want him to keep quiet about one incident, but is determined the truth will be heard.
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 Ring Of Terror written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous Siege of Sydney Street forms the background to this gripping novel. Luke Pagan, a young ambitious and Russian-speaking police officer is co-opted by the security services to observe Russian revolutionaries. It is known they are involved in terrorism, but proof is needed. Robbery, murder, arson, torture and blackmail are rife.
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 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 Sky High 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: Tim is secretive about what he had done in the war. A house explodes, killing the occupant with whom Tim had quarrelled. The police latch onto the fact that Tim worked with explosives during the war. Moreover, he could be a suspect in respect of a series of country house burglaries. There is a final twist for the reader to stumble across.
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.
