Death in Captivity - A Second World War Mystery

A World War Two mystery reissued as part of the "British Library Crime Classics" series. A master tunneller and amateur detective sets out to find whether a death in a collapsed tunnel out of an Italian prisoner-of-war camp was accidental or murderous. A locked room mystery combined with a thrilling escape story, set towards the end of the conflict.

Summary

This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from an Italian POW camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and a handful of British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Gilbert
• Assisted by: Martin Edwards (Introduction)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780712352130
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5213-0
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 189 mm x 19 mm
• Series: British Library Crime Classics; British Library Crime Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic crime, Italy, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Classic crime and mystery fiction