 His novel "French Summer" is a humorous romance which revolves around vacationers at the French Riviera in the late 1920s.His character Francis X. Olvaney, illustrated as a crooked Tammany Hall politician responsible for dangerous slum areas, appears in stories contained in both "Brownstone Front" and "Flying Stories", lending credence to the opinion that many of Gilpatric's short stories are autobiographical in nature.In 1938, Gilpatric published "The Compleat Goggler" (the archaic title a jocose reference to Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler"), considered the first comprehensive guide to spearfishing.