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 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 219 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 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 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 211 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 257 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 241 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 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 241 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 Roller Coaster written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 237 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 Smallbone Deceased written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horniman, Birley and Craine are a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. They use a system of keeping important documents in deed-boxes and when one of them is found to contain the remains of a certain Mr. Smallbone, the threat of scandal reaches their innermost psyche.

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 Police Procedural written by George N. Dove and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before.

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 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 235 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.