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Reginald Hill
Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 193612 January 2012) was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. Biography Hill was born to a "very ordinary" family. His father, Reg Hill, was a professional footballer. His mother was a fan of Golden Age crime writers, and he discovered the genre while fetching her library books. He passed the Eleven plus exam and attended Carlisle Grammar School where he excelled in English. After National Service (1955–57) and reading English at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1957–60), he worked as a 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, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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. Career 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 Island One'' and ''Brief Encounters''. Buchanan had a supporting role in the feature movie '' Red Hot'' (1993) also starring Donald Sutherland and Balthazar Getty, a featured role in ''Witness Against Hitler'' (1995), starred in the television movie of Agatha Christie's '' The Pale Horse'' (1996) as Mark Easterbrook. Another BBC TV role Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theakston’s Old Peculiar
T&R Theakston is a brewery in the market town of Masham, North Yorkshire, England. The company is the sixteenth largest brewer in the UK by market share, and the second largest brewer under family ownership after Shepherd Neame. The brewery is also one of the last remaining in the UK to have an in-house cooperage. History T&R Theakston Ltd. was founded in 1827 by Robert Theakston and John Wood at the Black Bull pub and brewhouse in College Lane, Masham. By 1832, Theakston had sole ownership of the brewery and in 1875 he passed control over to his sons Thomas and Robert. Thomas and Robert Theakston formed the T&R Theakston partnership and constructed a new brewery on the Paradise Fields, a stone's throw away from the original site. In 1919, the company acquired the Lightfoot Brewery, also in Masham, now used as the company's flagship hotel, The White Bear. Through successive generations the business became the established brewer in North Yorkshire being well placed to take a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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). Plot summary 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 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 Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictures Of Perfection
''Pictures of Perfection'' is a 1994 crime novel by Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe Detective Superintendent Andrew "Andy" Dalziel and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill. Characterisation and style Dalziel is ... series. The title is a quote from a letter by Jane Austen—"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked." A quote from Austen's letters is included at the beginning of each chapter, and the story itself makes innumerable references to Austen's novels. Plot summary The plot involves a missing constable in the Yorkshire village of Enscombe (which is the name of the estate where Frank Churchill lives in the Austen novel '' Emma''). While investigating the issue, the detectives Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield become acquainted with the inhabitants of the town, and it becomes clear that there are a great many secre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recalled To Life (novel)
''Recalled to Life'' is a 1992 crime novel by Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, set in Yorkshire. The novel tells the story of Dalziel's re-investigation of the 1963 murder at a local manor, Mickledore Hall, and the crime is billed as the last of the golden age murders. The murder took place shortly before the story of the Profumo affair broke, and during a weekend get together at the Hall. The guests at Mickledore Hall that weekend included a government minister, a CIA officer who specialised in dirty tricks, a British diplomat with Royal connections, and the young American nanny charged with looking after the children of the house. The nanny, Cissy Kohler, was wrongly implicated in a murder committed by the local landowner, and has spent almost 30 years in prison as a result. Following Cissy's release, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel remains convinced of her guilt, but, investigating further, he begins to find his certainties being eroded. Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bones And Silence
''Bones and Silence'' is a 1990 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the eleventh novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel received the Gold Dagger The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year. From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From ... Award in 1990 and was nominated for the Edgar Award. Publication history *1990, London: Collins Crime Club , Pub date 22 March 1990, Hardback 1990 British novels Novels by Reginald Hill Collins Crime Club books {{1990s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underworld (Reginald Hill Novel)
The underworld, also known as the netherworld, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld. The concept of an underworld is found in almost every civilization and "may be as old as humanity itself". Common features of underworld myths are accounts of living people making journeys to the underworld, often for some heroic purpose. Other myths reinforce traditions that entrance of souls to the underworld requires a proper observation of ceremony, such as the ancient Greek story of the recently dead Patroclus haunting Achilles until his body could be properly buried for this purpose. Persons having social status were dressed and equipped in order to better navigate the underworld. A number of mythologies incorporate the concept of the soul of the deceased making its own journey to the underworld, with the dead needing to be taken acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Killing Kindness
''A Killing Kindness'' is a 1980 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the sixth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe Detective Superintendent Andrew "Andy" Dalziel and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill. Characterisation and style Dalziel is d ... series. Publication history *1980, London: Collins Crime Club , Pub date 24 November 1980, Hardback 1980 British novels Novels by Reginald Hill Collins Crime Club books British detective novels {{1980s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Pinch Of Snuff (novel)
''A Pinch of Snuff'' is a 1978 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the fifth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. Plot summary Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, Inspector Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe starts investigating, he soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that his and Shorter's concerns are unnecessary. Meanwhile, the "Calli" has been vandalised and its proprietor Gilbert Haggard has been assaulted so badly that he succumbs to a heart attack. The only existing copy of "Droit de Seigneur" - the film Jack Shorter was so worried about - has been destroyed, and when 13-year-old Sandra Burkill accuses the dentist of being the father of her (yet unborn) chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An April Shroud
''An April Shroud'' is a 1975 crime novel written by Reginald Hill, it is also the fourth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel is mainly about Dalziel, as Peter and Ellie Pascoe marry and go on honeymoon. Taking leave himself, Dalziel stumbles across a case of embezzlement and murder, which he solves with Pascoe's last minute assistance in the closing chapters. Publication history *1975, London: Collins Crime Club , Pub date 7 July 1975, Hardback *2009, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press Felony & Mayhem Press is an American book publisher which specializes in re-issues of out-of-print mystery novels, first paperback editions of books previously published in hardcover, and U.S. editions of books that initially came out overseas.Ot ... , Pub date May 2009. 1975 British novels Novels by Reginald Hill Collins Crime Club books {{1970s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruling Passion
''Ruling Passion'' is a 1973 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the third novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel opens with Detective Peter Pascoe arriving at what should have been a reunion of old friends. Instead he walks in on the scene of a grisly triple-murder. To solve the crime, Pascoe needs both his superior officer, Andy Dalziel and his romantic partner—and Dalziel's feminist antagonist—Elli. Publication history *1973, London: Collins Crime Club , Pub date April 1973, Hardback *1987, London: Harper Collins *2008, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press Felony & Mayhem Press is an American book publisher which specializes in re-issues of out-of-print mystery novels, first paperback editions of books previously published in hardcover, and U.S. editions of books that initially came out overseas.O ... , Pub date September 2008. References 1973 British novels Novels by Reginald Hill Collins Crime Club books {{1970s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
