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{{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|left|200px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | |||
'''Fear to Tread''' is a mystery–crime thriller by the British mystery writer [[Michael Gilbert]], first published in 1953 by [[Hodder & Stoughton]] in England and by [[Harper & Row]] in the United States. Set mostly in London, it was his seventh novel in six years and built upon the favorable reputation he had achieved earlier with the well-received [[Smallbone Deceased]] and [[Death Has Deep Roots]]. Its main character is Wilfred Wetherall, a middle-aged, mild-mannered headmaster of "an understaffed, overpopulated secondary school for boys in the south-east of London." To further emphasize the apparently unheroic nature of the protagonist, throughout the book the third-person, omniscient narrator refers to him as "Mr. Wetherall". | '''Fear to Tread''' is a mystery–crime thriller by the British mystery writer [[Michael Gilbert]], first published in 1953 by [[Hodder & Stoughton]] in England and by [[Harper & Row]] in the United States. Set mostly in London, it was his seventh novel in six years and built upon the favorable reputation he had achieved earlier with the well-received [[Smallbone Deceased]] and [[Death Has Deep Roots]]. Its main character is Wilfred Wetherall, a middle-aged, mild-mannered headmaster of "an understaffed, overpopulated secondary school for boys in the south-east of London." To further emphasize the apparently unheroic nature of the protagonist, throughout the book the third-person, omniscient narrator refers to him as "Mr. Wetherall". | ||
Revision as of 18:24, 3 September 2016
Fear to Tread is a mystery–crime thriller by the British mystery writer Michael Gilbert, first published in 1953 by Hodder & Stoughton in England and by Harper & Row in the United States. Set mostly in London, it was his seventh novel in six years and built upon the favorable reputation he had achieved earlier with the well-received Smallbone Deceased and Death Has Deep Roots. Its main character is Wilfred Wetherall, a middle-aged, mild-mannered headmaster of "an understaffed, overpopulated secondary school for boys in the south-east of London." To further emphasize the apparently unheroic nature of the protagonist, throughout the book the third-person, omniscient narrator refers to him as "Mr. Wetherall".
In a long, admiring ''New York Times'' article about Gilbert by the mystery writer Amanda Cross she writes that:
His heroes fight without hope of reward, because they hate bullying; they honor, albeit with regret, the slow processes of democracy and law; they are loyal to those who have fought at their side, and they do not think trust a mug's game. In short, his characters embody the virtues of the class-ridden but romantic public school tradition.
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/12/books/who-did-it-michael-gilbert-and-p-d-james.html?pagewanted=2