The Killing of Katie Steelstock is written as a police procedural in the best traditions of the Golden Age writers. Certainly one of Michael Gilbert’s finest in this particular sphere. A TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the investigation progresses and evidence mounts, the reader is not fooled into taking the wrong path and coming to an incorrect conclusion, but the ending is perhaps one of the most ingenious and surprising to be found in this genre. Full of detail and strong rounded characters.