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Photo: Central Press/Hulton Archive via Getty Images (1956)
Michael Gilbert (left), Josephine Bell and John Creasey at the first Crime Writers' Association dinner at the Criterion in London, 6th April 1956. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Gilbert, Michael
- Country/Region:
- United Kingdom
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Drama
Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and educated at St. Peter’s School in Seaford, Sussex, and Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon, after which he read law at the University of London, graduating in 1937. During the war he served in North Africa and Europe. He was a prisoner of war in North Africa and based his thriller Death in Captivity (1952) on his experiences.
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