{"title":"Books by Michael Gilbert","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241657744","title":"Game Without Rules","description":"\u003cb\u003eDiscover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor two secret agents, there's no such thing as a quiet life in the countryside...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a peaceful Kent village, Mr Behrens lives with his aunt at the Old Rectory, where he plays chess and keeps bees. His friend Mr Calder lives nearby with Rasselas, a golden deerhound of unnatural intelligence. No one would suspect that they are in fact working for British Intelligence, carrying out the jobs that are too dangerous for anyone else to handle - whether it's wiping out traitors, Soviet spies or old Nazis - in these gloriously entertaining stories.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201695416498,"sku":"9780241657744","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241657744_c7f131df-fdfc-4891-89f2-f3d58cfffc41.jpg?v=1786012142"},{"product_id":"9780712355636","title":"As If By Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294659555701,"sku":"9780712355636","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712355636_763f1b5e-d897-4c7d-9614-cf036b0cce0f.jpg?v=1786014937"},{"product_id":"9780712352130","title":"Death in Captivity","description":"A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur detective, takes up the case.   This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296542667125,"sku":"9780712352130","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712352130_aa6c123c-3025-4cd5-a5e9-1e911043a255.jpg?v=1786014682"},{"product_id":"9780712355940","title":"Sky High","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the village of Brimberley, the worst thing on the horizon seems to be the chance of being outshone by the rival village choir of Bramshott. But that is until Brimberley’s lead tenor is blown up in his home by an explosion that rocks the whole community. As an amateur coalition of the motorcycling choir leader Liz, her ex-commando son and a retired general begins to piece together this strange crime, mystery upon mystery compounds in a case involving dark secrets buried in the turmoil of the Second World War, parochial grudges, a burglar whose reputation borders on the mythical, and a volatile killer poised to strike again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1955, this classic village mystery with elements of WW2 spy fiction showcases Gilbert’s ingenious plotting and ability to blow the reader’s assumptions sky high.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368139501941,"sku":"9780712355940","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712355940_9d2aab22-d0dc-45d1-9c8a-21f72f79b132.jpg?v=1786014960"},{"product_id":"puzzles-of-the-parish","title":"Puzzles of the Parish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I think that it is desirable to discuss the affair – here, in the room in which the Bishop’s body was found.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury. A beloved vicar contemplates a perfect crime when a blackmailer comes knocking. Poisoned pen letters lead to a fall from grace for a rector’s wife, and a suspicious fall from the second storey for the rector.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathered here in this new collection are some of the greatest mystery tales in which the tendrils of crime steal into the churchyard, featuring clergymen and nuns as victims, amateur sleuths and villainous perpetrators of the devil’s work. Replete with a fascinating introduction and notes from one of the guiding lights of crime fiction, Martin Edwards, this anthology delivers cosy brainteasers and fiendishly-fashioned stories with a sting in the tail, from a congregation of writers including Joyce Porter, H. C. 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Complete with a well-stuffed introduction from expert editor, anthologist and crime author Martin Edwards, detailing the fascinating role of what we imbibe to the genre, this anthology includes tales from the likes of Dorothy L Sayers, Michael Gilbert and EC Bentley, and is sure to leave readers hungry and wanting more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499294695797,"sku":"9780712369855","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712369855.jpg?v=1786694609"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-michael-gilbert.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}