Books by Michael Gilbert
“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
Interviews where books by Michael Gilbert were recommended
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Checkmate to Murder: A Second World War Mystery
by E.C.R. Lorac -
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Traitor's Purse: The Albert Campion Mysteries
by Margery Allingham -
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N or M?: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
by Agatha Christie -
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Death in Captivity: A Second World War Mystery
by Michael Gilbert -
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Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery
by Nap Lombard
The Best Wartime Mystery Books, recommended by Caroline Crampton
The Best Wartime Mystery Books, recommended by Caroline Crampton
The ‘golden age’ of detective fiction is usually considered to end suddenly with the outbreak of the Second World War. But many of the era’s leading novelists continued to write prolifically throughout, says Caroline Crampton, creator of the popular Shedunnit podcast. Here she selects five of the best wartime mysteries.
