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'''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]]. | '''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." Throughout the book, which is told by a third-person, omniscient narrator, he is referred to as Mr. Wetherall. | ||
Revision as of 18:59, 30 August 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." Throughout the book, which is told by a third-person, omniscient narrator, he is referred to as Mr. Wetherall.