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Inspector Alan Banks
Detective Superintendent Alan Banks (born 1958) is the fictional protagonist in a series of crime novels by Peter Robinson. From 2010 to 2016 several of the novels were adapted for television, and other original stories were produced, under the series title ''DCI Banks'' with Stephen Tompkinson in the lead role. Background Most of the first dozen novels focused on crimes investigated by Banks. In the 1999 novel, ''In A Dry Season'', Banks and his wife, Sandra, are separated and eventually divorce. The character of 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 fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows View
''Gallows View'' is the first novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ... by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in 1987, but has been reprinted a number of times since. Plot A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with the local feminists and his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. As the tension mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In A Dry Season
'' In a Dry Season '' is the tenth novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson (novelist), Peter Robinson in the Inspector Alan Banks, Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in 1999, but has been reprinted a number of times since. The novel is widely acclaimed as Robinson's best, a large step forward in ambition from previous books, and this was reflected in its critical and commercial response. The novel was nominated for the 1999 Hammett Prize, was shortlisted for the American Edgar Award and won the 2000 Anthony Awards, Anthony Award for 'Best Novel'. Research on the period After researching the Second World War for ''In a Dry Season'', Robinson wrote two short stories set in wartime (1940s) Yorkshire involving Frank Bascombe a "special constable in the war" and veteran of the First World War: ''Missing in Action'' and ''In Flanders Fields,'' which were published in ''Not Safe After Dark.'' A third story "Cornelius Jubb" in ''The Price o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping In The Ground (novel)
Sleep is a sedentary state of mind and body. It is characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than a coma or disorders of consciousness, with sleep displaying different, active brain patterns. Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes: REM sleep and non-REM sleep. Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. Dreams are a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. During sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these are vital processes that maintain mood, memory, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Music's Over (novel)
''When the Music's Over'' is the 23rd novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series, published in 2016. Plot Alan Banks is newly promoted to Detective Superintendent. There are two investigations in the book, one is investigated by DI Annie Cabbot although Banks is the SIO on paper. He has three female assistants. At an important meeting called by the chief constable (and attended by the new Police and Crime Commissioner) Banks is told that he is to be in charge of a ''historical sexual abuse'' investigation, along with an old (now) friend Richard (Dirty Dick) Burgess from the NCA (the National Crime Agency; the British FBI. It is similar to the Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris cases, and part of Operation Yewtree. He is to investigate Danny Caxton who was a crooner in the late fifties then a popular (and sexy) television host and celebrity entertainer in the sixties to the eighties and early nineties. Caxton is accused of the rape of Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abattoir Blues (novel)
''Abattoir Blues'' (American title: ''In the Dark Places'') is the 22nd novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series set in Yorkshire. It was published in 2014. Plot DCI Banks has been on holiday in Umbria, Italy, meeting his girlfriend Oriana's family. He is due back on Tuesday but calls into work a day early. DC Gerry Masterson says ''You're a glutton for punishment, sir''. When talking to a witness, a retired policeman who says ''Why keep working any longer than you have to'' DI Annie Cabott thinks of Banks: ''They'd have to drag him kicking and screaming out of his office soon. Or would he get a newer, bigger office and an extra five year's grace if he got promoted to Superintendent, as Gervaise had promised last November''. Annie investigates ''a bloody stolen tractor .... Is this why I put in all those years to make DI'' But DC Dougal Wilson says ''it's rural crime ... a major crime .... according to the new police commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Revolution (novel)
Children of the revolution may refer to: * Children of the revolution (concept) * Children of the Revolution (song), ''Children of the Revolution'' (song), a 1972 song by T. Rex * Children of the Revolution (1996 film), ''Children of the Revolution'' (1996 film), a 1996 comedy film * Children of the Revolution (2002 film), ''Children of the Revolution'' (2002 film), a 2002 film by Zola Maseko *Children of the Revolution (2010 film), ''Children of the Revolution'' (2010 film), a 2010 documentary film * Children of the Revolution (novel), ''Children of the Revolution'' (novel), a 2013 novel by Peter Robinson {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watching The Dark (novel)
The ''Inspector Banks'' series is a collection of mystery novels by Peter Robinson about Detective Superintendent Alan Banks. The series is set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road. A former member of the London Metropolitan Police, Inspector Alan Banks leaves the capital for a quieter life in the Dales. Since 2010, several of the novels have been adapted for television under the series title ''DCI Banks''. Selected texts ''Gallows View (1987)'' ''Gallows View'', the first novel in the series, was first published in 1987. The novel follows Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. His first cases involve a Peeping Tom frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs breaking int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Boy (novel)
Bad Boy may refer to: Books * Bad Boy (novel), ''Bad Boy'' (novel), a 2011 novel by Peter Robinson * Bad Boy (1953 book), ''Bad Boy'' (1953 book), a 1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson * Bad Boy (comics), ''Bad Boy'' (comics), a 1997 one-shot comic book by Frank Miller and Simon Bisley Film and television * The Bad Boy (film), ''The Bad Boy'' (film), a 1917 American crime drama by Chester Withey * Bad Boy (1935 film), ''Bad Boy'' (1935 film), an American film directed by John G. Blystone * Bad Boy (1939 film), ''Bad Boy'' (1939 film), an American film directed by Herbert E. Meyer * Bad Boy (1949 film), ''Bad Boy'' (1949 film), an American film starring Audie Murphy * Bad Boy (1963 film), ''Bad Boy'' (1963 film) or ''The Bastard'', a 1963 Japanese youth film directed by Seijun Suzuki * Bad Boy (2002 film), ''Bad Boy'' (2002 film) or ''Dawg'', a dramedy starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley * Bad Boy (upcoming film), ''Bad Boy'' (upcoming film), upcoming Indian Hindi romantic c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Colours Of Darkness
All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All album), 1999 * ''All'' (Descendents album) or the title song, 1987 * ''All'' (Horace Silver album) or the title song, 1972 * ''All'' (Yann Tiersen album), 2019 * "All" (song), by Patricia Bredin, representing the UK at Eurovision 1957 * "All (I Ever Want)", a song by Alexander Klaws, 2005 * "All", a song by Collective Soul from ''Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid'', 1994 Science and mathematics * ALL (complexity), the class of all decision problems in computability and complexity theory * Acute lymphoblastic leukemia * Anterolateral ligament Sports * American Lacrosse League * Arena Lacrosse League, Canada * Australian Lacrosse League Other uses * All, Missouri, a community in the United States * All, a brand of Sun Products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friend Of The Devil (novel)
"Friend of the Devil" is a song recorded by the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia and John Dawson (musician), John Dawson and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter (lyricist), Robert Hunter. It is the second track of the Dead's 1970 album ''American Beauty (album), American Beauty''. Like most of ''American Beauty'', the song is largely acoustic music, acoustic and opens with Garcia playing a descending G major scale (G F# E D C B A G) in the bassline, bass register (music), register. The song was introduced in concert on March 20, 1970 at the Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, New York), Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. Following the group's October 1974-June 1976 touring hiatus, the song was performed in a significantly slower arrangement with extended guitar and keyboard solos. Loggins and Messina, whose version of the song was slowed down, might have inspired the Dead to do the same. In more recent history, Phil Lesh and Friends have performed a more uptempo vers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piece Of My Heart (novel)
The ''Inspector Banks'' series is a collection of mystery novels by Peter Robinson about Detective Superintendent Alan Banks. The series is set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road. A former member of the London Metropolitan Police, Inspector Alan Banks leaves the capital for a quieter life in the Dales. Since 2010, several of the novels have been adapted for television under the series title ''DCI Banks''. Selected texts ''Gallows View (1987)'' ''Gallows View'', the first novel in the series, was first published in 1987. The novel follows Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. His first cases involve a Peeping Tom frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs breaking into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Affair (novel) '', 2005 novel in the Burton & Swinburne series by Mark Hodder
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Strange Affair may refer to: * ''Strange Affair'' (1944 film), a mystery * ''The Strange Affair'', a 1968 British crime film * ''Strange Affair'' (1981 film), a French drama * ''Strange Affair'' (album), a 1991 album by Wishbone Ash * ''Strange Affair'' (novel), a 2005 mystery by Peter Robinson See also * ''The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry'', 1945 American film noir drama directed by Robert Siodmak * ''The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack ''The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack'' is a steampunk novel by British writer Mark Hodder, the first novel in the ''Burton & Swinburne'' series; it won the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. The series follows the adventures of two Victorian-era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
