"been adapted for television under the series title ""DCI Banks"" with Stephen Tompkinson in the title role. Although ""Caedmon's Song"" is a standalone novella, it is related to ""Friend of the Devil"". Peter Robinson (novelist) Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is an English-Canadian crime writer. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing. Robinson was awarded a BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds. He then"
"Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of crime fiction that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Rendell was born Ruth Barbara"
"Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of crime fiction that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Rendell was born Ruth Barbara"
"Detective Sergeant (subsequently Detective Inspector) Annie Cabbot makes her first appearance as a member of Banks' team. Subsequent novels have a sub-plot about the on-off romance between Banks and Cabbot. A colleague of Banks from his time in London, Detective Superintendent (later Chief Superintendent) Richard ""Dirty Dick"" Burgess, is another perennial character who appears in many of the novels. Initially hostile to Banks when they first met, they become good friends over time and have established a natural (if still slightly edgy) rapport by the early 21st century. A detective inspector during his London period and a detective chief inspector"
"2017 dollars); among his executors was Chief Superintendent Adolphus Williamson. Jack Whicher Detective Inspector Jonathan ""Jack"" Whicher (1 October 1814–29 June 1881) was one of the original eight members of the newly formed Detective Branch which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842. In 1860 he was involved in the Constance Kent murder case which was the subject of Kate Summerscale's 2008 book ""The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"" and the film of the same name. He was one of the inspirations for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket, Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse, Wilkie Collins's Sergeant Cuff and R. D. Wingfield's Jack Frost,"
"wanted to know the time. Andy Hayman Andrew Christopher ""Andy"" Hayman, CBE, QPM (born 1959) is a retired British police officer and author of ""The Terrorist Hunters"". Hayman held the rank of Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary and Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations at London's Metropolitan Police, the highest-ranking officer responsible for counter-terrorism in the United Kingdom. Hayman was directly responsible for the investigation into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. He has also spoken for the Association of Chief Police Officers, first on drugs policy, and later on counter-terrorism. Born in Essex in 1959, Hayman is married and has"
"Jack Whicher Detective Inspector Jonathan ""Jack"" Whicher (1 October 1814–29 June 1881) was one of the original eight members of the newly formed Detective Branch which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842. In 1860 he was involved in the Constance Kent murder case which was the subject of Kate Summerscale's 2008 book ""The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"" and the film of the same name. He was one of the inspirations for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket, Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse, Wilkie Collins's Sergeant Cuff and R. D. Wingfield's Jack Frost, among other fictional detectives. Whicher was born in 1814 in"
"June Thomson June Thomson (also known as June Valerie Thomson), (born 1930, in Rettendon, Essex, United Kingdom) is a detective novelist. A former teacher, Thomson was educated at Chelmsford High School and Bedford College University of London. She is the creator of the ""Chief Inspector Jack Finch"" (""Inspector Rudd"" in American editions) and ""Sergeant Tom Boyce"" series of novels. Since 1990 she has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes pastiche collections of short stories. Her works have been translated into many languages. June Thomson previously lived in St. Albans in Hertfordshire and now lives in Rugby. She is the"
"Clifton Robbins Clifton Robbins (22 October 1890 – 9 December 1964) was an English journalist, writer of golden age detective fiction in the 1930s, and executive of the International Labour Organization. His stories of amateur detectives involved murder and international drug smuggling and he is best known for his series featuring Clay Harrison, a London barrister turned amateur detective, and his clerk Henry. He worked for the International Labour Organization from 1920, ultimately becoming director of the ILO London office in 1945 before retiring in 1950 to become principal of the Y.M.C.A. College for Adults in Kingsgate, Kent, for eight"
"Andy Hayman Andrew Christopher ""Andy"" Hayman, CBE, QPM (born 1959) is a retired British police officer and author of ""The Terrorist Hunters"". Hayman held the rank of Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary and Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations at London's Metropolitan Police, the highest-ranking officer responsible for counter-terrorism in the United Kingdom. Hayman was directly responsible for the investigation into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. He has also spoken for the Association of Chief Police Officers, first on drugs policy, and later on counter-terrorism. Born in Essex in 1959, Hayman is married and has two children. He joined Essex"
"production will be directed by Roxana Silbert and starring Charles Lawson as Inspector Rebus. Inspector Rebus The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. The books are written in third person limited omniscient mode, focusing on Rebus, with the point of view sometimes shifting to colleagues, petty criminals or suspects. The stories belong to the genre of police procedural detective fiction, with a hardboiled aspect that has led to them being dubbed 'Tartan Noir'. All the novels"
"York University in Toronto. He is best known for the Inspector Banks series of novels set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale, which have been translated into nineteen languages, but also writes short stories and other novels. Robinson was born in Armley, Leeds, son of Clifford Robinson (a photographer) and Miriam Jarvis (a homemaker). Robinson emigrated to Canada to continue his studies after completing his first degree at the University of Leeds. Robinson lives in the Beaches area of Toronto with his wife, Sheila Halladay, and he occasionally teaches crime writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing"
"Charles Wycliffe Charles Wycliffe is a fictional English detective superintendent, created by author W. J. Burley. He featured in twenty-two novels. (Burley died when the twenty-third was still unfinished). D/Supt Wycliffe is the head of the CID (plain-clothes detective branch of the police) in Devon and Cornwall. As such, he takes charge of all investigations of serious crime. Although Wycliffe is not a native Cornishman (his family were market gardeners in Shropshire) and he is advised that the outlook and attitudes of people in some of Cornwall's more remote communities is not what he may be used to, he tries"
"Joyce Porter Joyce Porter (March 28, 1924 – December 9, 1990) was an English crime fiction author. Porter created the characters of ""Eddie Brown"", ""Constance Ethel Morrison Burke"", and ""Wilfred Dover"". In DCI Wilfred Dover and his assistant Sergeant MacGregor, she created a template later used successfully, especially by Reginald Hill, in straight 'whodunnits', but Porter's novels, while intricately plotted, were always played for laughs. Dover was obese, lazy, unhygienic (the only man in the Metropolitan Police Service with underarm dandruff) and bordering on corrupt. MacGregor was keen, clean and ferociously ambitious. However, on the rare occasions he was able"
"""The Torturer"", 1995 As by Holly Delatour (erotica): ""The Downfall of Danielle"", 1993 ""What Katy Dunn Did"", 1994 As by Lee Martin: ""Gangster's Wives"", 2007 ""The Lipstick Killers"", 2009 As by Martin Milk (anagram of 'Mark Timlin'): ""That Saturday"", 1996 As by Tony Williams: ""Valin's Raiders"", 1994 ""Blue on Blue"", 1999 Mark Timlin Mark Timlin (born 15 June 1944, in Cheltenham) is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. The Sharman books are characterised by their noir tone"
"Banks was himself a student. A motion picture called ""Complicity"" (or ""Retribution"" in some markets) based on the novel was filmed in 2000. Complicity (novel) Complicity is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1993. Its two main characters are Cameron Colley, a journalist on a Scottish newspaper called ""The Caledonian"", which resembles ""The Scotsman"", and a serial murderer whose identity is a mystery. The passages dealing with the journalist are written in the first person, and those dealing with the murderer in the second person, so the novel presents, in alternate chapters, an unusual example"
"1957, and in ""Dead in the Morning"" invented an Oxford don sleuth, Patrick Grant, who shared her love of Shakespeare. Her most recent novels are ""A Case to Answer"" (2000) and ""Cause for Concern"" (2001). Her five Patrick Grant books were reissued as ebooks in 2018. She was chairman of the Crime Writers Association in 1979-80. She was awarded the 1999 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, and the 1982 Martin Beck Award from the Swedish Academy of Detection for ""The Scent of Fear."" Yorke died at the age of 88 on 17 November 2012. Crime Writers Association The Gumshoe Site Obituary"
"obituaries in ""The Times"" and the ""Journal of the Royal Society of Arts"". Clifton Robbins Clifton Robbins (22 October 1890 – 9 December 1964) was an English journalist, writer of golden age detective fiction in the 1930s, and executive of the International Labour Organization. His stories of amateur detectives involved murder and international drug smuggling and he is best known for his series featuring Clay Harrison, a London barrister turned amateur detective, and his clerk Henry. He worked for the International Labour Organization from 1920, ultimately becoming director of the ILO London office in 1945 before retiring in 1950 to"
"headquarters. In September 1999 Flambard Press published his verse novel ""Jack, the Lady Killer"". His guide to ""Writing Crime Fiction"" (1986) was based on his analysis of the development of the genre from the 1920s to the 1990s. It includes guidance on fictional structure, the plot and its characters, and on submitting a script to publishers. Partial bibliography H. R. F. Keating Henry Reymond Fitzwalter ""Harry"" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. Keating, known as ""Harry"" to friends"
"Charlie Resnick Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the protagonist of a series of eleven police procedural novels by British writer John Harvey, based in the city of Nottingham. Resnick is of Polish descent and loves sandwiches and jazz. The first novel in the series, ""Lonely Hearts"" was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the """"100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century"""". What was believed to be the final novel in the series, ""Last Rites"", was published in 1998. However, in an interview on BBC Four on 7 November 2006 John Harvey mentioned that he"
"John Rebus Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as ""Rebus"". The novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh. Rebus has been portrayed by John Hannah and Ken Stott for Television, with Ron Donachie playing the character for the BBC Radio dramatisations. According to Ian Rankin, John Rebus was born in 1947 and grew up in a pre-fabricated house in Craigmead Terrace, Cardenden, Fife (Rankin's home town), the son of a stage hypnotist. His grandfather was an"
"and William McIlvanney. From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, with figures including Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Candia McWilliam, Frank Kuppner and Andrew O'Hagan. In genre fiction Iain Banks, writing as Iain M. Banks, produced ground-breaking science fiction and Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Frederic Lindsay, Quintin Jardine, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Christopher Brookmyre, and particularly Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels. The novel in its modern form developed rapidly in the eighteenth century and"
"Lawrence Block Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938 in Buffalo, New York, where he was raised. Block attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but left before graduating. Block's earliest work, published pseudonymously in the 1950s, was mostly in the soft-porn mass market paperback industry, an apprenticeship he shared with fellow mystery author"
"series, both are still teenagers. The TV Wycliffe was an accomplished jazz pianist (as Jack Shepherd is in real life). Charles Wycliffe Charles Wycliffe is a fictional English detective superintendent, created by author W. J. Burley. He featured in twenty-two novels. (Burley died when the twenty-third was still unfinished). D/Supt Wycliffe is the head of the CID (plain-clothes detective branch of the police) in Devon and Cornwall. As such, he takes charge of all investigations of serious crime. Although Wycliffe is not a native Cornishman (his family were market gardeners in Shropshire) and he is advised that the outlook and"
"Inspector Wexford Chief Inspector Reginald ""Reg"" Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 debut ""From Doon With Death"", and has since been the protagonist of 23 more novels (plus some short stories). In ""The Ruth Rendell Mysteries"" he was played by George Baker. In a 2013 interview, Rendell stated: Wexford is a Liberal Democrat though, and I am a Labour party member, in fact a Labour peer, so I am further to the left than him. Wexford is an intelligent, sensitive"
"Ian Rankin Ian James Rankin, (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. His father, James, owned a grocery shop, and his mother, Isobel, worked in a school canteen. He was educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath. His parents were horrified when he then chose to study literature at university, expecting him to study for a trade. Encouraged by his English teacher, he persisted and graduated in 1982 from the University of Edinburgh, where he also worked on a doctorate on Muriel Spark but did not"
"Mark Timlin Mark Timlin (born 15 June 1944, in Cheltenham) is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. The Sharman books are characterised by their noir tone and their fast action, and feature a high casualty rate among their characters; Sharman himself is frequently injured or even hospitalised in the course of the novels. The books formed the basis for the TV series ""Sharman"", in which Clive Owen played the eponymous detective; Timlin made a cameo appearance in"
"DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe. All the Colours of Darkness A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their"
"1987, A Coffin from the Past, Geoffrey Bles 1970, Chivers Press edition 1987. [9] Inspector Winter, Gwendoline Butler’s First Detective, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/winter.html (April 2011) [10] Tribute to Gwendoline Butler, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/jda.html (February 2014) Gwendoline Butler Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (19 August 1922 - 5 January 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the ""woman's police procedural"", is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler, and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville. Born Gwendoline Williams on 19 August 1922"
"P. D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney James, a tax inspector, and educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in"
"of humor and a ton of turmoil in his life. And Banks, a member of the so-called 'Brit grit' movement, has an easy, breezy style that keeps you flipping the pages."" Talbott concluded, ""Pretty standard stuff, but done with enough style and wit to make us pick up the next book in the series."" Donkey Punch (novel) Donkey Punch (also referred to as Donkey Punch: A Cal Innes book and Sucker Punch) is a crime novel by Scottish author Ray Banks. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Edinburgh-based company Birlinn Ltd in 2007, and again by the"
"Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his ""Inspector Morse"" series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, ""Inspector Morse"", from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, ""Lewis"", and a prequel series, ""Endeavour"". Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Alfred and Dorothy Dexter. He had an elder brother, John, a fellow classicist, who taught Classics at The King's School, Peterborough, and a sister, Avril. Alfred ran a small garage and taxi company from premises"
"Complicity (novel) Complicity is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1993. Its two main characters are Cameron Colley, a journalist on a Scottish newspaper called ""The Caledonian"", which resembles ""The Scotsman"", and a serial murderer whose identity is a mystery. The passages dealing with the journalist are written in the first person, and those dealing with the murderer in the second person, so the novel presents, in alternate chapters, an unusual example of an unreliable narrator. The events take place mostly in and around Edinburgh. Colley is a ""Gonzo journalist"" with an amphetamine habit, living"