Barbara Margaret Trimble (née Gill; 15 or 21 February 1921 – 12 November 1995) was a British writer of more than 20

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novels between 1967 and 1991, under the names of Margaret Blake, B. M. Gill and Barbara Gilmour.

Life

Barbara Margaret Gill was born in

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, Wales; her father was Irish and her mother was Welsh. Trimble was nominated twice for an

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for Best Novel, in 1985 (for ''The Twelfth Juror'') and in 1988 (for ''Nursery Crimes''). She died in 1995.

Bibliography

As Margaret Blake

Single novels

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

As B. M. Gill

Single novels

* ''Target Westminster'' (1977) * ''Death Drop'' (1979) * '' The Twelfth Juror'' (1984) * ''Nursery Crimes'' (1986) * ''Dying to Meet You'' (1988) * ''Time and Time Again'' (1989)

Inspector Maybridge Series

# ''Victims'' (1980) (US title: ''Suspect'') # ''Seminar for Murder'' (1985) # ''The Fifth Rapunzel'' (1991)

As Barbara Gilmour

Single novels

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

References

External links

B. M. Gill
at Fantastic Fiction 1921 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Welsh women writers 20th-century Welsh novelists People from Holyhead Welsh crime novelists Welsh romantic fiction writers Welsh women novelists British women romantic fiction writers Women crime fiction writers Welsh people of Irish descent Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{UK-novelist-stub