Blood and Judgement

Blood and Judgement is a police procedural novel by by the British author Michael Gilbert. Published in England in 1958 as Blood and Judgement by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States as Blood and Judgment by Harper & Row, it was Gilbert's tenth novel.

The noted mystery critic of the New York Times, Anthony Boucher, gave it a very favorable review, saying that:

Michael Gilbert has the agreeable habit of never writing the same book twice.... [This] case seems to be a simple gang killing, but evolves into something of greater psychological interest; and the detective is unorthodox but effective young Detective Sergeant Pat Petrella—a man who should have a great career if he can manage not to get kicked off the force. Despite Gilbert's insistence on variety, I shouldn't mind at all if he'd write this book again, and give us more of Petrella.