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Author_Maurice Procter
British Crime Writer
British detective
British Library Classics
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Chief Inspector Martineau
Classic crime fiction
cosy crime
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Golden Age Detective Fiction
if you like Agatha Christie
if you like Anthony Gilbert
if you like Dorothy L Sayers
if you like Lord Peter Wimsey
if you like Midsomer Murders
if you like Miss Marple
if you like Poirot
Jessica Fellowes
Mitford Murders
murder
noir crime fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781471902796
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2015
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The XXC mob is giving Scotland Yard a run for its money, but the police have no idea who they are. As the gang is London-based, Granchester's Chief Inspector Martineau is not overly concerned.
Then London gets too hot even for this gang. Cain, one of its members, decides they'll slip out of London one by one, so that Scotland Yard will think they've been done for.
Then Martineau gets a 999 call early one Sunday morning: a safe has been broken into during the night.
Martineau and team start to investigate, but they haven't got very far when there's another Granchester robbery. Martineau realises he's got the XXC gang on his hands - and that things are going to get pretty tough.
Born in Nelson, Lancashire, Maurice Procter (1906-1973) attended the local grammar school and ran away to join the army at the age of fifteen. In 1927 he joined the police in Yorkshire and served in the force for nineteen years before his writing was published and he was able to write full time. He was credited with an ability to write exciting stories while using his experience to create authentic detail. His procedural novels are set in Granchester, a fictional 1950s Manchester, and he is best known for his series characters, Detective Superintendent Philip Hunter and DCI Harry Martineau. Throughout his career, Procter's novels increased in popularity in both the UK and the US, and in 1960 Hell is a City was made into a film starring Stanley Baker and Billie Whitelaw. Procter was married to Winifred, and they had one child, Noel.
