Gilbert: 2100 books

Il y avait trois jours que Le Mousse, flanqué de Finaud, était parti, le fusil à l’épaule, pour la foire de Rocfontaine. Le chien, qui faisait vieux et n’aimait point à découcher, était, comme d’habitude, rentré dès le premier soir et gardait le coin du feu, car on était en...

Sometimes the thing that keeps us from making the wrong choice is the one thing we can’t control. As an investigative reporter and the host of her own TV talk show, Faith Marin works to expose the truth for her viewers. But in a personal life, she's anchored her world with firm boundaries...

Just when she can’t take it anymore, Lena finally catches a break. But when things seem too good to be true, they often are. Finding her dream job went right out the window when Leta Breckenridge had to quit school to help care for her mother suffering from dementia. When a delinquent account...

Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as the high school counselor in her close-knit community. Without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed and lashes out. Nothing prepares this mother for the helplessness that follows when...

Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics...

The American Revolution was a decisive conflict, which saw the birth of a new nation. Continental Army regulars fought in massive and famous battles from New England to Virginia, but in the South a different kind of warfare was afoot. Local militia, sometimes stiffened by a small core of the Continental...

Promoted to Detective Inspector, Patrick Petrella now finds himself in a London borough close to the Thames. In these short stories he has to deal with arson, blackmail, fraud, forgery and murder. The Thames is a focus for some of the stories, as it is convenient for the dumping of a body and also...

Horniman, Birley and Craine are a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. They use a system of keeping important documents in deed-boxes and when one of them is found to contain the remains of a certain Mr. Smallbone, the threat of scandal reaches their innermost...

The next installment in the British Library Crime Classics series! Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat" —Daily Telegraph A man is found dead in an escape tunnel beneath an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die...

Mr. Calder lived with a golden deerhound named Rasselas in a cottage in Kent. Mr. Behrens lives with his aunt and keeps bees. No one would in the least suspect that the pair are in fact agents for the British Joint Services Standing Committee and they are often tasked with jobs that no one else can...

Patrick Petrella has been promoted, but is now installed behind a desk, dealing with a mountain of paperwork on diverse subjects ranging from police race relations to allegations of brutality, press harassment and bribery of officers. He is, however, desperate to get out onto the streets again. In...

Patrick Petrella is considered something of a curiosity by his fellow police officers. He is 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. The short stories contained in this volume follow his career as...

Ashley, Kiley, and Turner are all in love with the same man--Aram. Ashley is twenty-eight and engaged to be married, but she finds herself unable to fully recover from her breakup with Aram. He still contacts her and proclaims his love for her, despite being in a relationship with Kiley. Kiley is...

Elviana is a story of beauty, love and pain. It is a story of a girl with an uncommon beauty. Even the gods looks out for her. This book is suitable for every gender and race, as it exposes wickedness and preaches love. This is the first Episode in the story "Elviana".