Barbara Margaret Trimble

Barbara Margaret Trimble (née Gill; 15 or 21 February 1921 – 12 November 1995) was a British writer of more than 20 crime, thriller and romance novels between 1967 and 1991, under the names of Margaret Blake, B. M. Gill and Barbara Gilmour.[2]

Barbara Margaret Trimble
Born(1915-02-21)21 February 1915
Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
DiedNovember 12, 1995(1995-11-12) (aged 80)[1]
Pen nameMargaret Blake,
B. M. Gill,
Barbara Gilmour
Occupationnovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1967–1991
Genrecrime, thriller, romance

Life

Barbara Margaret Gill was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales; her father was Irish and her mother was Welsh.

Trimble was nominated twice for an Edgar Award for Best Novel, in 1985 (for The Twelfth Juror) and in 1988 (for Nursery Crimes).

She died in 1995.

Bibliography

Single novels
  • Stranger at the Door (1967)
  • Bright Sun, Dark Shadow (1968)[3]
  • The Rare and the Lovely (1969)
  • The Elusive Exile (1971)
  • Courier to Danger (1973)
  • Flight from Fear (1973)[4]
  • Apple of Discord (1975)
  • Walk Softly and Beware (1977)

Single novels
  • Target Westminster (1977)[5]
  • Death Drop (1979)
  • The Twelfth Juror (1984)[6]
  • Nursery Crimes (1986)
  • Dying to Meet You (1988)[7]
  • Time and Time Again (1989)[8]

Inspector Maybridge Series
  1. Victims (1980) (US title: Suspect)[9]
  2. Seminar for Murder (1985)[10]
  3. The Fifth Rapunzel (1991)[11]

Single novels
  • You Can't Stay Here (1968)
  • Pattern of Loving (1969)
  • Threads of Fate (1971)
  • Question the Wind (1973)

References
  1. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results
  2. "Author Pseudonyms". Trussel. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  3. Blake, Margaret (1968). Bright Sun, Dark Shadow. Crowood Press. ISBN 978-0-7091-0485-8.
  4. Blake, Margaret (1973). Flight from Fear. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7091-2959-2.
  5. Gill, B. M. (1994). Target Westminster. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-61766-3.
  6. Gill, B. M. (1984). The Twelfth Juror. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-18194-3.
  7. Gill, B. M. (1992). Dying to Meet You. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-29893-2.
  8. Gill, B. M. (1990). Time and Time Again. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-19174-4.
  9. Gill, B. M. (1985). Suspect. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-345-32514-3.
  10. Gill, B. M. (1987). Seminar for Murder. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-33978-2.
  11. Gill, B. M. (1991). The Fifth Rapunzel: An Inspector Maybridge Novel. C. Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19389-2.


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