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called the stories "a tidy assortment" for those who enjoy leisurely, literate espionage vignettes, even though few are plausible and the humour "sometimes dry to the point of invisibility".
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between October 1968 and January 1969, including the following derived from stories collected in this anthology:
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in the US. The book was Gilbert's second collection of Calder and Behrens stories, following
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The book contains the following stories, all originally published in
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is a 1982 short story collection by the British crime and spy writer
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A series of twenty radio plays by Gilbert under the general title
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Index


Michael Gilbert
Short stories
Harper & Row
Hodder & Stoughton
Game Without Rules

Michael Gilbert
eponymous counter-intelligence agents
Hodder & Stoughton
Harper & Row
Game Without Rules
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Kirkus Reviews
BBC Radio 2


ISBN
0-14-00-6637-3
"Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens"
Kirkus Reviews
"Game Without Rules"
ISBN
978-0-7090-8924-7
Categories
1982 short story collections
British short story collections
British spy fiction
Fictional spies
Hodder & Stoughton books

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