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Barbara Margaret Trimble

バーバラ・マガレット・トリンブル

Bābara Maragareto Torinburu

Aliases: Gill
Pen Names: Margaret Blake（romance novels）, B. M. Gill（crime novels, thrillers）, Barbara Gilmour（romance novels）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1915-02-21 （Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales）
Died
1995-11-12 age 80
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1967-1991
Nominations
Nominated for Edgar Award Best Novel (1985, The Twelfth Juror), Nominated for Edgar Award Best Novel (1988, Nursery Crimes)

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Twelfth Juror

1984 Crime novel

A crime story involving a juror.

JusticeCrime

Nursery Crimes

1986 Thriller

Crimes set in a nursery.

ChildrenCrime

Bibliography

  • Stranger at the Door (1967, Margaret Blake), Bright Sun, Dark Shadow (1968, Margaret Blake), The Rare and the Lovely (1969, Margaret Blake), The Elusive Exile (1971, Margaret Blake), Courier to Danger (1973, Margaret Blake), Flight from Fear (1973, Margaret Blake), Apple of Discord (1975, Margaret Blake), Walk Softly and Beware (1977, Margaret Blake), Target Westminster (1977, B.M. Gill), Death Drop (1979, B.M. Gill), Victims (1980, B.M. Gill), The Twelfth Juror (1984, B.M. Gill), Seminar for Murder (1985, B.M. Gill), Nursery Crimes (1986, B.M. Gill), Dying to Meet You (1988, B.M. Gill), Time and Time Again (1989, B.M. Gill), The Fifth Rapunzel (1991, B.M. Gill), You Can't Stay Here (1968, Barbara Gilmour), Pattern of Loving (1969, Barbara Gilmour), Threads of Fate (1971, Barbara Gilmour), Question the Wind (1973, Barbara Gilmour)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Tense narrative in crime and thrillersEmotional depiction in romances

Legacy

British novelist known for crime, thriller, and romance novels, nominated twice for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Wrote over 20 novels between 1967 and 1991. Father Irish, mother Welsh.

Trivia

  • Father was Irish and mother was Welsh.
  • Birth year listed as either 1921 or 1915 in sources.