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 Roller Coaster written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Petrella has been promoted, but is now installed behind a desk and desperate to get out onto the streets again. Gilbert has Petrella detecting the patterns of rival gangs at work and uncovering a paedophile ring which operates as far as Amsterdam. There is violence, dark-humour and fast action in this gripping story.

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 255 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 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 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 Ring Of Terror written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 209 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 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 Close Quarters written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a year after Cannon Whyte fell from the cathedral gallery, unease still casts a shadow over peaceful living in the Close. In a separate incident, head verger Appledown is being persecuted, before being found dead. Inspector Hazlerigg is called in. Investigations suggest someone connected to the cathedral is responsible.

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 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 Into Battle written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German spy ring directs Zeppelins to keep an eye on the British fleet. Two ships are blown up and Luke Pagan is ordered to watch a suspected British Officer. This leads to the uncovering of an Irish terrorist plot and an international conspiracy run by a German. There is a race against time to identify all espionage and terrorist activities.

Download or read book The Dust and The Heat 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: Oliver Nugent takes on a derelict pharmaceutical firm. He encounters ruthless opposition, and counteracts with some unscrupulous methods of his own. It seems no one is above blackmail and all is fair in big business battles. Then a threat, alluding to a time when Oliver was in charge of an SS camp, jeopardizing all that he has worked for.

Download or read book Over And Out written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of World War I in the trenches continues unabated. Luke Pagan finds himself in the Intelligence Corps, investigating an illegal organisation controlled by a Belgian, which is encouraging British soldiers to desert and move across to the German side. Pagan enters dangerous territory and faces disaster.

Download or read book After The Fine Weather 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: When Laura Hart travels to Austria Neo-Nazis are stirring trouble. The leader of the Lienz government is using some heavy-handed tactics and is unwilling to let one little English girl destroy his plans for the largest Nazi move since the war, which Laura makes a dangerous enemy.

Download or read book Trouble written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosives destined for a terrorist bombing campaign are being smuggled into the UK. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs with race riots in London. The true extent of the nightmare facing the government and the solution depends on a single, quite astonishing, piece of evidence.

Download or read book The Crack In The Teacup written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barhaven, on the south coast, is a fairly sleepy place and it seems incredulous that it could be where local councillors manage to line their own pockets. Enter a young lawyer, who finds himself at the centre of a major campaign against racketeering. The public and the press become involved and it ends with a twist that is totally unexpected.

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.