Gilbert, Michael Francis

Gilbert, Michael Francis
▪ 2007

      British crime novelist and attorney (b. July 17, 1912, Billinghay, Lincolnshire, Eng.—d. Feb. 8, 2006, Luddesdown, Kent, Eng.), entertained readers for almost 60 years with his espionage thrillers, detective stories, mysteries, and police procedural novels. He penned some 30 novels, hundreds of short stories, and several plays for stage and radio, as well as serials and plays for television, with much of this writing occurring during his daily train commute to and from his job as a senior partner in a London law firm. His best-known novels included Smallbone Deceased (1950) and The Night of the Twelfth (1976). Gilbert received the Grand Master award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988 and was given a Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement by the British Crime Writers' Association in 1994. He was appointed CBE in 1980.

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