About Barbara Margaret Trimble
Lived 1915 – 1995 (aged 79–80). Barbara Margaret Trimble was a British writer and novelist.
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.
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.
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Welsh writer
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Barbara Margaret Trimble was born on 21 February 1915 in Holyhead.
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Barbara Margaret Trimble died in 1995.
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Barbara Margaret Trimble was a writer and novelist.
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