Michael Gilbert

Michael Francis Gilbert, CBE (17 July 1912 – 8 February 2006) was a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who wrote as Michael Gilbert.

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    Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don’t come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.
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    A taste for drink, combined with gout,
    Had doubled him up forever.
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