Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Born in Lincolnshire in 1912, Michael Francis Gilbert was educated in Sussex before entering the University of London where he gained an LLB with honours in 1937. Gilbert was a founding member of the British Crime Writers Association, and in 1988 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America - an achievement many thought long overdue. He won the Life Achievement Anthony Award at the 1990 Boucheron in London, and in 1980 he was knighted as a Commander in the Order of the British Empire. Gilbert made his debut in 1947 with Close Quarters, and since then has become recognized as one of our most versatile British mystery writers. He was the father of Harriett Gilbert.
Series
Books
Petrella at Q
1977
The Country-House Burglar
1955
Young Petrella
1988
Blood and Judgement
1959
The Crack in the Teacup
1966
The Killing of Katie Steelstock
1980
The Night of the Twelfth
1976
Overdrive
1967
The Man Who Hated Banks and Other Stories
1997
Death in Captivity
1952
Fear to Tread
1953
Be Shot for Sixpence
1956
Smallbone Deceased
1950
The Queen Against Karl Mullen
1991
The Body of a Girl
1972
Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens
1982
Trouble
1987
Paint, Gold and Blood
1989
The 92nd Tiger
1973
Flash Point
1976
The Empty House
1978
The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes
2002
Close Quarters
1947
End Game
1982
The Black Seraphim
1983
Anything for a Quiet Life
1990
The Doors Open
1949
Death Has Deep Roots
1951
Blood on the Tracks
Railway Mysteries
2018
The Long Journey Home
1985
Into Battle
1997
He Didn't Mind Danger
1948
The Family Tomb
1969
The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes
1986
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
Ring of Terror
1995
Stay of execution, and other stories of legal practice,
2011
Roller-Coaster
1994
