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“This is based very directly on Michael Gilbert’s own experience of being a prisoner of war during the Second World War. He served in the armed forces, was captured in Italy, and was in a prisoner of war camp. While he was there, he had the realisation that in the work of the detective novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, the most difficult thing was to draw a plausible circle around your suspects. he realised that a really good and unusual example of the closed circle is the prisoner of war camp. Entry and exit is very tightly controlled.” Read more...
The Best Wartime Mystery Books
Caroline Crampton, Memoirist
