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Sherlock deals with the death of a butler at a country manor. The world-famous and very popular character ACDoyle, this time from the pen of Michael Gilbert: He was born in Billinghay, England, studied law at the University of London. After the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the artillery, serving in North Africa and Italy. In 1943 he was captured and imprisoned until the Italian capitulation. He started publishing only after the end of the war, he was the author of almost all types of detective stories, from procedural to espionage to criminal and various combinations of them. He worked actively as a lawyer until his retirement in 1983. His perfect knowledge of the environment, investigative methods and experience in legal practice, together with good literary processing and the art of breaking down the plot, ranks him among the leading authors of detective stories. His strength was that he was not afraid to show the machinery of power, corruption and politicking in his stories.