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Michael Gilbert (1) (1912–2006)

Autor de Smallbone Deceased

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70+ Obras 2,337 Miembros 64 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

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Obras de Michael Gilbert

Las obras han sido aliasadas en Michael Gilbert.

Smallbone Deceased (1950) 435 copias
Death in Captivity (1952) 189 copias
Death Has Deep Roots (1951) 183 copias
Close Quarters (1947) 149 copias
The Black Seraphim (1983) 118 copias
The Night of the Twelfth (1976) 107 copias
The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes (1986) — Editor — 99 copias
Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens (1982) 97 copias
Blood and Judgement (1958) 91 copias
End-Game (1982) 88 copias
The Long Journey Home (1985) 80 copias
The Empty House (1700) 70 copias
Petrella at Q (1977) 61 copias
The Body of a Girl (1972) 60 copias
Sky High (1955) 54 copias
Overdrive (1967) 53 copias
Flash Point (1974) — Autor — 49 copias
Be Shot For Sixpence (1956) 42 copias
Roller Coaster (1994) 40 copias
The Queen Against Karl Mullen (1991) — Autor — 25 copias
Six of the Best Short Novels by Masters of Mystery (1989) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Prep School. An Anthology (1991) 4 copias
Mord på en kvinde (1974) 2 copias
The Law (Professions) (1977) 2 copias
The Amateur [Short story] (1977) 2 copias
Doctor Crippen (1953) 2 copias
Masser af våben (1978) 1 copia
Mord i fangeskab (1975) 1 copia
Organiseret mord (1974) 1 copia
Windfall 1 copia
Cloak And Dagger — Contribuidor — 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Las obras han sido aliasadas en Michael Gilbert.

100 Malicious Little Mysteries (1981) — Contribuidor — 405 copias
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 400 copias
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1976) — Contribuidor — 356 copias
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (1966) — Contribuidor — 296 copias
Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries (2016) — Contribuidor — 195 copias
El festín de los asesinos (1984) — Contribuidor — 194 copias
Blood on the Tracks (2018) — Contribuidor — 177 copias
Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (2016) — Contribuidor — 165 copias
The Master's Choice (1979) — Contribuidor — 148 copias
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries (2015) — Contribuidor — 147 copias
Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (1959) — Editor — 137 copias
London After Midnight : A Tour of Its Criminal Haunts (1996) — Contribuidor — 135 copias
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery (1968) — Contribuidor — 120 copias
Great British Detectives (1991) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
Continental Crimes (2017) — Contribuidor — 96 copias
The House of the Arrow (1924) — Epílogo, algunas ediciones91 copias
The Long Arm of the Law (2017) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
Fifty Best Mysteries (1991) — Contribuidor — 71 copias
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Contribuidor — 69 copias
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Contribuidor — 62 copias
A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020) — Contribuidor — 53 copias
Los Mejores relatos policiacos : 1 (1981) — Contribuidor — 52 copias
Detective Duos (1997) — Contribuidor — 51 copias
To Catch a Spy: An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories (1964) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones; Contribuidor — 46 copias
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Tales for a Rainy Night (1961) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
I Want My Mummy (1981) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Mysterious Pleasures (2003) — Contribuidor — 34 copias
Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries (2023) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales (2023) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Masterpieces of Mystery: The Fifties (1976) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Great detective stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
Masterpieces of Mystery: More from the Sixties (1979) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
The After Midnight Ghost Book (1980) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Man Who ... (1992) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
The Gourmet Crook Book (1976) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1985 (1985) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Ellery Queen's Crookbook (1974) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Crime Waves: No. 1 (1991) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Cream of the Crime (1962) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
The Rigby File (1989) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Evening Standard Detective Book: Second Series (1951) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1983 (1983) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Winter's Crimes 20 (1988) 8 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Winter's Crimes 16 (1984) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book (1960) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1981 (1981) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Crime Without Murder (1970) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Winter's Crimes 12 (1980) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1989 (1989) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1987 (1987) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1990 (1990) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Some Like Them Dead (1960) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute (1992) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Ellery Queen's Aces of Mystery (1975) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1984 (1984) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
London After Midnight: A Conducted Tour, Part 1 (1996) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Crime on the Move (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Planned Departures (1958) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Every crime in the book: An anthology of mystery stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1982 (1982) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Crime Writers' Choice (1964) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1978 (1978) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Best Crime Stories — Contribuidor — 3 copias
The Spy in the Shadows [Anthology 8-in-1] (1965) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Suspense, October 1960 [Vol. 3, No. 10] — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Best Legal Stories 2 (1970) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1980 (1980) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Best Detective Stories (Volume 2) (1964) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book 1973 (1972) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Suspense, August 1958 [Vol. 1, No. 1] (1958) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book 1971 (1970) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Butcher's Dozen (1956) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1973 (1973) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Best Legal Stories — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Dristige detektiver : et Hitchcock udvalg (1970) — Autor, algunas ediciones1 copia
Choice of Weapons (1958) — Introducción; Contribuidor — 1 copia
10 moderne spionhistorier — Autor, algunas ediciones1 copia
Det ligner mord. 10 moderne detektivhistorier — Autor, algunas ediciones1 copia

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The only work slightly comparable is definitely Michael Innes’ Death at the President’s Lodging. There is a campus, which is locked at night, a bunch of quirky intellectual canons and vergers, and associated gardeners. The dean of the whole place is fairly decent at being the dean, the reader supposes, but not too excellent at knowing how to deal with attempted murder and the like. The dean calls his nephew hoping for an unofficial, but still police-involved, assistance. The nephew calls Inspector Hazlerigg, who really does not have much of a personality. I get the idea that he is a larger, athletic fellow. However, he does not really do much to distinguish himself in this novel – besides being the authority of the Yard.

There is a lot of coming and going to Evensong. There is a choir and they are dressing for sessions and then disrobing afterward. There are tea times and there are flower beds. The detectives are going to have a smoke and pull out their papers and go over the case – again.Overall, this is a good read. It is not a story that all readers will enjoy. There is too much detail work, maybe there are just too many characters?
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AQsReviews | 3 reseñas más. | Dec 27, 2023 |
Overall the book is pretty lightly witty and written well with a strong sense of place around the solicitors office this all takes part in, and the mystery does work well mechanics wise and ties in cleverly with lots of minor scattered clues but... I admit I found the ending a little unsatisfying emotionally even though technically it's totally fine. I think the problem is that there are so many characters in the book which inevitably means they only get so much attention and even though the writer handled each character deftly enough that they all gave a good impression it's still hard to keep track of them and they don't really get a chance to have any particular emotional depth. The ending really doesn't go into any sort of depth with the wrapping up and the motive although technically legitimate doesn't feel satisfying.

3 stars is maybe a bit mean but the denouement is so important in mystery novels and I just didn't get that sense of satisfaction and understanding and emotional payoff that I really look for even though the rest of the book is technically highly proficient and deftly handled.
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tombomp | 17 reseñas más. | Oct 31, 2023 |
These six masters include Ellery Queen, in what is his, to me, best short novel. I think the conclusion is truly surprising.
Michael Gilbert seldom produces anything but a masterful work, and this is another, with Patrick Petrella as the chief protagonist. It gives such a great look at England's criminal underground.
Ed McBain is a favorite to lots of people, though not to me. You will probably like this entry.
Georges Simenon is another I don't much care for. I've wondered why and think maybe it's at least partly because the original is in French and what I read is a translation. Madame Simenon has a prominent part in this story and that helps.
Erle Stanley Gardner is an uneven writer. This is rather contrived, but interesting.
Finally, this John D. MacDonald story is not about Travis McGee, is not, in fact, part of any series, but is an interesting story, one we might need to laugh at ourselves about.
All in all, this is a good collection.
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morrisonhimself | Aug 20, 2023 |
Michael Gilbert quickly, apparently with this book right here, became a standard and a dependable in British crime fiction.
I know I have been a fan since the first of his works I read, especially his Calder and Behrens entries.
Any time you're looking for something light but engrossing, nearly always you can count on Michael Gilbert. "Smallbone Deceased" is a classic.
 
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