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Michael Gilbert (1912-2006) was one of the greatest crime writers to emerge after World War II. He was recognised with the crime writers association's highest award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, for an outstanding contribution to the genre of crime fiction. Both the Mystery Writers of America and the Swedish Academy of Detection honoured him as a Grand Master. Michael Gilbert wrote 30 novels and 183 short stories. He was equally at home writing thrillers, espionage, police procedural and classic detection. Twenty-seven previously uncollected short stories with themes ranging from robbery to murder are gathered here to form "Even Murderers Take Holidays and Other Mysteries". Included are all the remaining uncollected stories of Gilbert's popular series characters, Patrick Petrella, Hazelrigg, Calder and Behrens. An appendix lists all the published appearances of these series characters.
