DEATH IN CAPTIVITY

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The lightly toned contents are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the near very good rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which is toned to the spine and has a few short closed tears at the edges, repaired to the underside with small pieces of tape. Not price clipped (10/6 to the front flap). Scarce in first edition.

The author's sixth novel, a stand alone mystery and the basis for the 1959 British Don Chaffey directed film 'Danger Within' starring Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough and Michael Wilding. H. R. F. Keating, in his obituary for Michael Gilbert (in The Guardian), wrote that "Gilbert's time as a PoW prompted Death In Captivity (1952), surely the only whodunnit set in a prisoner-of-war camp". (Hubin).