Blood And Judgement: 1 (Patrick Petrella) - Softcover

Gilbert, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755105133 ISBN 13: 9780755105137

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2009

Synopsis

New edition with brand new contemporary cover.

About this title

Review:

"Usual fine job, with nice writing, humour. ," Saturday Review

"Usual fine job, with nice writing, humour.," Saturday Review

Gilbert readers need scarcely be told that the characters all come alive at first sight, and that his surpassing talent for narration enhances any plot. . . . Don't miss.--San Francisco Chronicle

Usual fine job, with nice writing, humour. Praise Allah, a detective story.--Saturday Review

About the Author:

Michael Francis Gilbert was born in Lincolnshire in 1912. He attended the University of London where he gained an LLB with honours in 1937. During World War II Gilbert served in the Royal Horse Artillery in North Africa where he was captured and imprisoned; an experience which led to the writing of his acclaimed novel Death in Captivity, first published in 1952. After the war Gilbert worked as a solicitor in London, during which time he found himself legal adviser to Raymond Chandler. In 1980 Gilbert was knighted as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. A founding member of the British Crime Writers association, in 1988 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and received the Lifetime Anthony Achievement award at the 1990 Boucheron in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0755105133
• ISBN 13: 9780755105137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208