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Sample of authors
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
Tom Maybridge
Gender: Male
English detective chief inspector, who is the main character in a series of novels by Barbara M. Gill. In the first, he is a somewhat anonymous but important figure in a police department, but already in the second book he is married to literary scholar Meg and – as in the third – the sole protagonist. Tom Maybridge is a patient investigator, he wears spectacles and his rather piercing gaze is a g...