Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132475
Patrick Petrella is considered a curiosity by his fellow police officers. The son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress, he speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. These short stories deal with burglaries, delinquents, bent lawyers, gangs, drugs trafficking and murder.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132416
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.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146662
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?
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132351
Hugo Greest has a TV adventure series. Unexpectedly he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that a Sheik is in the middle of a small war needs a military advisor and wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent ...
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132122
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.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146808
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.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075513219X
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.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132173
More than a year after Cannon Whyte fell from the cathedral gallery, unease still casts a shadow over peaceful living in the Close. In a separate incident, head verger Appledown is being persecuted, before being found dead. Inspector Hazlerigg is called in. Investigations suggest someone connected to the cathedral is responsible.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132149
James Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries, and murder. With modern forensic pathology he unravels the unvarnished truth, but not before unexpected romance intervenes.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132424
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.
