Singleton's Law

by Reginald Hill, K.C. Constantine

In an England where Parliament has been dissolved and the partisan hooliganism of football supporters is out of control, expatriate journalist Whitey Singleton finds himself plunged into to the savage regime of the Club Managers when his plane is hijacked and diverted to London

295 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Reginald Charles Hill was a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

After National Service (1955-57) and studying English at St Catherine's College, Oxford University (1957-60) he worked as a teacher for many years, rising to Senior Lecturer at Doncaster College of Education. In 1980 he retired from salaried work in order 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. He has also written more than 30 other novels, including five featuring Joe Sixsmith, a black machine operator turned private detective in a fictional Luton. Novels originally published under the pseudonyms of Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland, and Charles Underhill have now appeared under his own name. Hill is also a writer of short stories, and ghost tales.

Reviews

[Colin Vose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hill is showing his ability to write on diverse subject matters and this being my 3rd of his novels I was again surprised at it being very different from the other 2. This was a strange one to set the scene for mentally as it revolves around English football and uses the time period of the 80's but not in a factual way so being a keen football fan I had to stop trying to link it to real life. Once I got into this the book became more engrossing and makes you wonder how different our lives could be in our modern world. Great characters are formed through the chapters and Singleton manages to survive many deadly scrapes but you are never sure he has moved in the best direction for himself although he keeps moving forward to the end. A very cleverly written book and it requires focused reading to keep up with the many factions and character's battling each other. Now to find my next RH novel :)