Fannish Fifty: Michael Gilbert
Oct. 25th, 2023 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitI used to enjoy books by Michael Gilbert many years ago and was delighted to find when I reread some of his that I still enjoy his writing style. He wrote both short stories and full length novels and many are pure detective stories, some have more of an espionage slant, as, for example, Game Without Rules which I recently bought in the new Penguin series.
When I first encountered Gilbert it was in short story collections, and I was always delighted when a page or so in Mr Fortescue of the Westminster Branch of the London & Home Counties Bank would appear, because he was the boss of Behrens and Calder, who were members of the security services and I always knew this would mean a story with an excellent twist.
Gilbert was a lawyer and used to write his books while on his daily commute on the train from Kent to Lincoln's Inn, writing 500 words per day, which I find quite impressive.
When I first encountered Gilbert it was in short story collections, and I was always delighted when a page or so in Mr Fortescue of the Westminster Branch of the London & Home Counties Bank would appear, because he was the boss of Behrens and Calder, who were members of the security services and I always knew this would mean a story with an excellent twist.
Gilbert was a lawyer and used to write his books while on his daily commute on the train from Kent to Lincoln's Inn, writing 500 words per day, which I find quite impressive.
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