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'''Anything for a Quiet Life and Other New Mystery Stories''' is a collection of short stories by the British writer [[Michael Gilbert]] published in the United Kingdom by [[Hodder & Stoughton]] in 1990 and in the United States by [[Carroll & Graf]] the same year. All nine stories had previously appeared in ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]''. | '''Anything for a Quiet Life and Other New Mystery Stories''' is a collection of short stories by the British writer [[Michael Gilbert]] published in the United Kingdom by [[Hodder & Stoughton]] in 1990 and in the United States by [[Carroll & Graf]] the same year. All nine stories had previously appeared in ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]''. All of them take place in a fictional English coastal town called Shackleton-on-Sea, which is situated in the south of England not far from [[Brighton]] and [[Hove]]. They feature the activities of a small law firm called Jonas Pickett, Solicitor and Commission for Oaths, recently started by Pickett, a retired lawyer from London. There are three other main characters, his partner, Sabrina Mountjoy, their secretary, Claire Easterbrook, and a general handyman, Sam Conybeare, "a mountain of a man who had once performed remarkable feats of strength and daring in a circus." | ||
Revision as of 16:04, 10 June 2015
Anything for a Quiet Life and Other New Mystery Stories is a collection of short stories by the British writer Michael Gilbert published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton in 1990 and in the United States by Carroll & Graf the same year. All nine stories had previously appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. All of them take place in a fictional English coastal town called Shackleton-on-Sea, which is situated in the south of England not far from Brighton and Hove. They feature the activities of a small law firm called Jonas Pickett, Solicitor and Commission for Oaths, recently started by Pickett, a retired lawyer from London. There are three other main characters, his partner, Sabrina Mountjoy, their secretary, Claire Easterbrook, and a general handyman, Sam Conybeare, "a mountain of a man who had once performed remarkable feats of strength and daring in a circus."