by Michael Gilbert · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099386803
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«Death in Captivity» is the crime novel by Michael Gilbert, published by Random House UK in paperback (205 pages, in English).
In a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy during World War II, a suspected informer dies in the collapse of an escape tunnel. To protect the excavation, the inmates move the corpse; the fascist authorities consider it murder and point to an officer. Captain Henry «Cuckoo» Goyles, former professor and amateur detective, investigates.
Originally published in 1952 by Hodder & Stoughton, it won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1955.
For readers of classic crime fiction and historical fiction set in World War II.
