Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is a British crime writer.

After studying English at Oxford University he worked as a teacher until 1980, when he retired in order to devote himself full-time to writing.

Hill is best known for his novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel (pronounced "dee-el"), 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 .

His other novels include ones involving Joe Sixsmith, a Luton private detective, and others published under the pseudonyms of Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland, and Charles Underhill.

Bibliography

• A Clubbable Woman (1970) #
• An Advancement of Learning (1971) #
• Fell of Dark (1971)
• The Castle of the Demon (1971) (As Patrick Ruell) (apa The Turning of the Tide)
• A Fairly Dangerous Thing (1972)
• Red Christmas (1972) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Ruling Passion (1973) #
• Heart Clock (1973) (As Dick Morland) (apa Matlock's System as Reginald Hill)
• A Very Good Hater (1974)
• Death Takes a Low Road (1974) (As Patrick Ruell) (apa The Low Road)
• Albion! Albion! (1974) (As Dick Morland) (apa Singleton's Law as Reginald Hill)
• An April Shroud (1975) #
• Beyond the Bone (1975) (apa Urn Burial ) (As Patrick Ruell)
• A Very Good Hater (1974)
• A Pinch of Snuff (1978) #
• Pascoe's Ghost [SS] (1979) #

1. "Pascoe's Ghost" #
2. "The Trunk in the Attic"
3. "The Rio de Janeiro Paper"
4. "Threatened Species"
5. "Snowball"
6. "Exit Line"
7. "Dalziel's Ghost" #

• A Killing Kindness (1980) #
• The Spy's Wife (1980)
• Captain Fantom (1980) (As Charles Underhill)
• Who Guards the Prince? (1982)
• Deadheads (1983) #
• Traitor's Blood (1983)
• Guardians of the Prince (1983)
• Exit Lines (1984) #
• No Man's Land (1985)
• The Long Kill (1986) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Child's Play (1987) #

1. "There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union" (1987)
2. "Bring Back the Cat!" @
3. "Poor Emma"
4. "Auteur Theory" #
5. "The Bull Ring"
6. "Crowded Hour"

• The Collaborators (1987)
• Death of a Dormouse (1987) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Underworld (1988) #
• Dream of Darkness (1989) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Bones and Silence (1990) #
• One Small Step (novella) (1990) #
• Recalled to Life (1992) #
• Blood Sympathy (1993) @
• The Only Game (1993) (As Patrick Ruell)
• Pictures of Perfection (1994) #
• The Wood Beyond (1995) #
• Born Guilty (1995) @
• Asking for the Moon [SS] (1996) #

1. "The Last National Service Man" #
2. "Pascoe's Ghost" #
3. "Dalziel's Ghost" #
4. "One Small Step" #

• Killing the Lawyers (1997) @
• On Beulah Height (1998) #
• Arms and the Women (1999) #
• Singing the Sadness (1999) @
• Beyond the Bone (2000)
• Dialogues of the Dead (2002) #
• Death's Jest-Book (2003) #
• Good Morning Midnight (2004) #

# Dalziel/Pascoe series

@ Joe Sixsmith series

External link

• Reginald Hill's Home Page