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{{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|right|100px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | {{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|right|100px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | ||
'''Death in Captivity''' is a | '''Death in Captivity''' is a mystery novel by the British crime writer [[Michael Gilbert]], first published in the United Kingdom in 1952 by [[Hodder and Stoughton]] and in the United States by [[Harper & Row|Harper & Brothers]]. It was Gilbert's sixth novel and, unlike his previous ones, does not feature [[Inspector Hazlerigg|Chief Inspector Hazlerigg]] in any way. Nor is it set in Gilbert's usual London or France. Instead, while it bears all the forms the classical detective story, it is also a harrowing tale that takes place in a 1943 prisoner of war camp for British officers in northern Italy instead of a country house in the English countryside. | ||
Revision as of 19:01, 31 January 2017
Death in Captivity is a mystery novel by the British crime writer Michael Gilbert, first published in the United Kingdom in 1952 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Harper & Brothers. It was Gilbert's sixth novel and, unlike his previous ones, does not feature Chief Inspector Hazlerigg in any way. Nor is it set in Gilbert's usual London or France. Instead, while it bears all the forms the classical detective story, it is also a harrowing tale that takes place in a 1943 prisoner of war camp for British officers in northern Italy instead of a country house in the English countryside.