Death in Captivity
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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 of the classical detective story, it is also a harrowing tale of suspense that takes place in a 1943 prisoner of war camp for British officers in northern Italy instead of the typical enormous country house in the English countryside.