Who created the Yorkshire detectives 'Dalziel and Pascoe'?
"One Small Step (short story) One Small Step is a 1990 novella written by British writer Reginald Hill featuring the detective characters Dalziel and Pascoe. It is set in 2010, many years after the other Dalziel and Pascoe stories, and involves the detectives investigating the first murder on the Moon. ""One Small Step"" was originally published separately in 1990. In 1996, it was included, along with three other Dalziel and Pascoe stories, in the collection ""Asking for the Moon"". In May 2010, Emile Lemarque, a French astronaut, is killed by a short circuit in his urine collection device at the"
"teacher for many years, becoming a senior lecturer at Doncaster College of Education. In 1980 he retired from salaried work to devote himself full-time to writing. Hill is best known for his more than 20 novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel, Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield. The characters were used by the BBC in the ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" series, in which Dalziel was played by Warren Clarke, Pascoe by Colin Buchanan, and Wield by David Royle. He also wrote more than 30 other novels, including five featuring Joe Sixsmith, a black machine operator turned private detective in a fictional"
"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"
"including ""Deadheads"" and ""Exit Lines"". Buchanan was born and brought up in Dundee, Scotland. He is a graduate of the Drama Centre London (1991). Buchanan has two daughters, Kira and Maya, with his ex wife, Kim. He is a keen supporter of Birmingham City F.C.. Colin Buchanan (actor) Colin Buchanan (born 1966) is a Scottish actor who is best known for playing Detective Peter Pascoe in the BBC television series ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" which commenced in March 1996 and ran until June 2007. Buchanan's breakthrough television role came in the detective series ""A Touch of Frost"" in 1994 playing Constable"
"Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Warren Clarke Warren Clarke (26 April 1947 – 12 November 2014) was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"". His television appearances included ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" (as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel), ""The Manageress"" and ""Sleepers"". Born Alan James Clarke in Oldham, Lancashire, his father worked as a stained-glass maker and his mother as a secretary. He left Barlow Hall Secondary Modern School, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, aged 15 and began work at the ""Manchester Evening News"" as a copy boy. He later moved on to amateur dramatics"
"Colin Buchanan (actor) Colin Buchanan (born 1966) is a Scottish actor who is best known for playing Detective Peter Pascoe in the BBC television series ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" which commenced in March 1996 and ran until June 2007. Buchanan's breakthrough television role came in the detective series ""A Touch of Frost"" in 1994 playing Constable Austin in three episodes. In 1996 he commenced playing DS (later DI) Peter Pascoe in ""Dalziel and Pascoe"". Buchanan has also appeared in comedy drama television series ""All Quiet on the Preston Front"" (later called ""Preston Front""), ""The Bill"", ""Between the Lines"", ""Dangerfield"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Space"
"case of an apparent copycat suicide soon develops into something of a more sinister nature, revealing family secrets, corporate chicanery involving the arms trade, government agents and Iraq. Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from ""Good Morning -- Midnight"", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, ""Houdini's Ghost"" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local"
"Warren Clarke Warren Clarke (26 April 1947 – 12 November 2014) was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"". His television appearances included ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" (as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel), ""The Manageress"" and ""Sleepers"". Born Alan James Clarke in Oldham, Lancashire, his father worked as a stained-glass maker and his mother as a secretary. He left Barlow Hall Secondary Modern School, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, aged 15 and began work at the ""Manchester Evening News"" as a copy boy. He later moved on to amateur dramatics and performed"
"and Walker, Post also created the detectives Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard (""The Sleuth of St James Square"", 1920), the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle (""Monsieur Jonquelle: Prefect of Police of Paris"", 1923), and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton (""The Silent Witness"", 1930). Melville Davisson Post Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American author, born in Harrison County, West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character"
"as the blunt, earthy Dalziel, it's hard to see how anybody could have imagined one of them playing the sensitive, intellectual Pascoe"". BBC Worldwide subsequently approached Hill with a view to creating a new TV adaptation, to which Hill agreed. Actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan were subsequently cast in the roles of Dalziel and Pascoe, and between 16 March 1996 and 22 June 2007, eleven series consisting of both novel adaptations and original stories were produced. A Pinch of Snuff (TV series) A Pinch of Snuff is a British television crime drama miniseries, consisting of three fifty-minute episodes, that"
"Andy Rowley Andy Rowley is a British television producer known for his children's dramas, including ""Jeopardy"", which won a BAFTA Award for best children's drama in 2002, and ""Microsoap"", Prix Jeunesse winner and BAFTA best children's drama award winner in 1999. Andy was a BBC Production Manager (notably on ""Lovejoy"" )who went on to produce the last TV script written by Malcolm Bradbury, ""Foreign Bodies"" for ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" and many memorable TV dramas including ""Loved Up"", ""Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars"", ""Uncle Max"", ""I Was a Rat"", and ""Scene"", as well being a UK Producer on the"
"Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from ""Good Morning -- Midnight"", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, ""Houdini's Ghost"" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local businessman Palinurus 'Pal' Maciver, who has killed himself in similar circumstances to those of his father, who shot himself ten years earlier. However, what begins as a routine"
"from poetry by writing a detective novel, ""A Question of Proof"" under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator and gentleman detective who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has the same access to, and good relations with, official crime investigation bodies as those enjoyed by other fictional sleuths such as Ellery Queen, Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey. He published nineteen more crime novels. (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modelled on W. H. Auden, but Day-Lewis developed the character as a far less extravagant and more serious"
"the Yellow Room""), was written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux; it, too, has had many imitators. In the Golden Age of Detective Fiction impossible crimes were mainly solved by brilliant amateur sleuths, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes, who were inexplicably given free rein by Scotland Yard and, to a markedly lesser extent in their American equivalents, the New York Police Department; puzzling mysteries were solved by sheer reasoning and brain power. Such creators of famous Anglo-Saxon amateur detectives as Jacques Futrelle, Thomas and Mary Hanshew, G. K. Chesterton, Carolyn Wells, John Dickson Carr,"
"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"
"moment he steps onto the surface of the Moon. Retired Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel and his former colleague Peter Pascoe, now the UK Commissioner in the Eurofed Department of Justice, fly to the Moon to investigate Lemarque's death as a murder. Reviewing the American edition of ""Asking for the Moon"" in 1996, ""Publishers Weekly"" called ""One Small Step"" ""an almost absurd swansong for the mismatched twosome"". Reviewing ""Asking for the Moon"" for ""Booklist"", Emily Melton called ""One Small Step"" ""an intriguing but somewhat hokey piece of futuristic folderol"". Crime novelist and critic Martin Edwards described ""One Small Step"" as ""a"
"female secret agent ""Sherazad"" and detective ""Ape Dragoner"", while also penning down more humoristic titles, erotic stories and travel stories. He died in 1974. Alfred Mazure Alfred Leonardus Mazure (8 September 1914 – 16 February 1974) was a Dutch comics artist, novelist and film director, best known for his detective comic ""Dick Bos"", which was one of the most popular comics series in the Netherlands during the 1940s. He also published English-language comics for several British newspapers, including his second best-known work ""Romeo Brown"". Alfred Mazure was born in Nijmegen in 1914. His first comic strips, ""De Chef"" (1934–1935), ""Da's"
"third series (of four episodes each) were transmitted in August 2014 and January 2015 respectively. Paul Marquess Paul Marquess (born 23 June 1964) is a television producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His credits include ""Brookside"", ""The Bill"", ""Family Affairs"", ""Hollyoaks"", ""Crime Stories"", and more recently ""Suspects"" for Channel 5. He also originated the idea for the series ""Footballers' Wives"". He currently holds the post of managing director of Newman Street, a label of Fremantlemedia. Marquess began his career in 1996 as a storyliner on ""Coronation Street"" before developing and producing various other dramas for Granada television. He then landed a"
"to ""discover"" the murder when the room was unlocked in fact committed it just then. In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London—probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case. Holmes's art of detection consists in logical deduction based on minute details that escape everyone else's notice, and the careful and systematic elimination of all clues that in the course of his investigation turn out to"
"Gareth Hale Gareth Hale (born 15 January 1953, Hull) is an English comedian and actor, who is best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace, with his friend and comic partner Norman Pace. Both were former teachers, their comedy partnership has fronted several television programmes, most notably ""Hale and Pace"", ""Pushing Up Daisies"", ""h&p@bbc"" and ""Jobs for the Boys"". As straight actors, they also fronted the original TV dramatisation of ""Dalziel and Pascoe""; as well as making a guest appearance together in ""Survival"", a 1989 ""Doctor Who"" serial. Hale was a regular on the five soap"
"drawn by Max Plaisted. Adolphe Barreaux, who drew the much racier Sally The Sleuth, was the first to draw Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in the 1940s (the stories by Bellem). All the Dan Turner stories are written in the first person, in a racy, slang-ridden style that gives them a unique flavor. Guns are never ""guns"" but ""roscoes"", and they always go """"ka-chow!"""". A woman is never simply a ""woman"" but a ""dame"", ""frail"", ""quail"", ""wren"" or, if particularly attractive, a ""doll"" or ""cutie"". In his comic essay, ""Somewhere A Roscoe...,"" humorist S.J. Perelman both praises and skewers the Dan"
"for a ballet score. Pheloung is best known for the theme and incidental music to the ""Inspector Morse"" television series, for which he was nominated for 'Best Original Television Music' at the British Academy Television Awards in 1991; the sequel "" Lewis"", and the prequel ""Endeavour"". He has also composed for dance companies such as the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and for events including the opening night of the Millennium Dome. Pheloung also wrote the theme music for the BBC television series ""Dalziel and Pascoe"". His film work includes ""Hilary and Jackie"", based on the life of the cellist Jacqueline"
"names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe. His first two stories, ""Blackmailers Don't Shoot"" and ""Smart-Aleck Kill"" (with a detective named Mallory), were never altered in print but did join the others as Marlowe cases for the television series ""Philip Marlowe, Private Eye"". Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in ""Black Mask"" magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative and philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"Hazell (TV series) Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell. James Hazell was a cockney private detective character created by journalist and novelist Gordon Williams and footballer-turned-manager Terry Venables, who wrote under the joint pseudonym of P.B.Yuill. The first book,""Hazell plays Solomon"", appeared in 1974. ""Hazell plays Solomon"" was also the first episode of the TV series. The wise-cracking private detective was played by Nicholas Ball. Hazell was a smart parody of earlier film-noir detectives such as Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, the casting of Ball in the title"
"the Detective. In short, it is difficult to establish who was the first to write the English-language detective novel, as various authors were exploring the theme simultaneously. In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous of all fictional detectives. Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective (he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq), his name has become a byword for the part. Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell"
"aged just 14, he was offered a job by Marshall. Drummond died in around 1905 from tuberculosis, aged 19. Other associates included Derek ""Splash"" Page of the ""Daily Radio""; Ruff Hanson, a tough American investigator (both created by Gwyn Evans), and Blake's friends at Scotland Yard: Chief Detective Inspector Lennard, Detective Inspector Coutts, and Superintendent Venner. In 1905, Blake's bustling housekeeper Mrs Bardell (created by William Murray Graydon, who also created Pedro the bloodhound), was introduced and remained until the end. Her misuse of the English language was legendary in stories – she was a gifted cook and would always"
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, speculated at the time that the Ripper might have been female, as a woman could have pretended to be a midwife and be seen in public in bloody clothing without arousing suspicion or notice. This theory was then expanded upon in 1939 by William Stewart in his book ""Jack the Ripper: A New Theory"", which specifically named Pearcey in connection with the crimes. All evidence given is circumstantial, and there is no physical evidence or eyewitness reports linking Pearcey to the Ripper crimes. F. Tennyson Jesse, the British criminal historian, explained the"
"in a four-disc DVD box set on 5 October 2015, via Simply Media. Chandler & Co Chandler & Co is a British television detective drama series, created and written by Paula Milne, that first broadcast on BBC1 on 12 July 1994, and ran for two series. The series starred Catherine Russell as Elly Chandler, a private detective who runs her own agency. In the first series, she works alongside her sister-in-law Dee Tate (Barbara Flynn). In the second series, Tate is replaced by Kate Phillips (Susan Fleetwood), a former client turned employee. Peter Capaldi, Struan Rodger and Ann Gosling all"
"(2000-2006) starring amongst others, Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire; the series ran for 69 episodes and has been screened in many countries around the world. Chaplin also adapted novels by the crime writer Reginald Hill for four films in the BBC series ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" (one of these, 'On Beulah Height', won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America); and also P D James' 'Original Sin' for an ITV mini-series. Other TV work includes the ITV drama screened in 2006 - 'Pickles - The Dog Who Won The World Cup' and his TV adaption of Michelle Magorian's novel"
"variety/comedy/quiz/people-show ""h&p@bbc"" (1999) was a flop. Similarly, their dramatisation of the ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" detectives for ITV in 1994 did not lead to success, and the BBC later attempted the serialisations with more success, with Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the title roles. They appeared working in a shoe shop in episode two of The Armando Iannucci Shows (2001). More recently they appeared in the Christmas Special of the Gervais and Merchant show ""Extras"", broadcast in December 2007. They appeared in several episodes of the 2018 season of Benidorm, playing a pair of financial fraud investigation officers tailing transvestite"
"Billy Macqueen Billy Macqueen is co-founder of award-winning UK indie Darrall Macqueen and has created and executive produced numerous rating winning children’s television shows including Smile, Bear Behaving Badly, Pet Squad and Baby Jake. Billy’s first children’s format success came in 1996 with Ghost Train – ITV’s acclaimed Saturday morning show – which he devised and produced for ITV aged 27 – and ran for three seasons. At the Walt Disney Company in London, as Vice President of International Programming and Development, he created Wake Up In the Wild Room and Disney’s Roadhog and other ratings winning formulas that are"