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!
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 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 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 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 The Empty House 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: Dr. Alexander Wolfe seemingly plunges over a cliff in his car. His body is never recovered and it emerges his life was recently insured for a considerable sum. An insurance loss adjuster is sent to investigate. There is romance, possible gang involvement in arson, and a potential job offer in store. Is Wolfe really dead?
Download or read book The Doors Open written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a commuter train, Paddy sees a man attempting suicide. Intervening, he prevents it. However, the next day the man is found dead, and Paddy believes it to be suspicious. Roping in a friend and lawyer, he determines to discover the truth. They become increasingly suspicious of the dead man’s employers who appear to hire very dangerous staff.
Download or read book Young Petrella written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Petrella is considered a curiosity by his fellow police officers. The son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress, he speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. These short stories deal with burglaries, delinquents, bent lawyers, gangs, drugs trafficking and murder.
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 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 Fear To Tread 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: The story of how Mr. Weatherall, the headmaster of a school and an ordinary man, was introduced to a huge nationwide black market operation. It seems anything goes to ensure profits of crime on a vast scale. Moreover, was the victim run over by a train before, or after, he died? And can Weatherall succeed in a one man battle against such odds?
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 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 The End Game 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: The Regional Crime Squad is after an organised crime empire involved with drug smuggling. David Morgan goes undercover and finds himself posing as a vagrant so as to track down a former employee who knows of the whereabouts of incriminating documents. This is a 'Snakes and Ladders' operation with twists and ranges from London to Florence.
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 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.
