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Gilbert, Michael
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 thr...
Literary figures
Fin Macleod
Gender: Male
A middle-aged, ordinary security director and former police detective in Edinburgh, who moves to the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides after his son has been killed in a road accident. This has also led to the collapse of his marriage with Mona. Fin Macleod is worn-out and sad, but in the so-called Lewis Trilogy by Peter May is involved in crime cases that he solves thanks to his knowledge...