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The Pub Crawler
Bill Knight is disappointed when he receives his first assignment as a newly inducted policeman, fresh from college. He is asked to go undercover in a festering slum and is ordered not to set foot in police headquarters again until a thoroughly distasteful mission has been accomplished. So Bill becomes a plainclothes spy, and things take an even more complicated turn than anyone could have expected when he becomes involved with two girls while investigating the murder of a pub landlord and the theft of a valuable coin collection. - See more at: http://www.themurderroom.com/books/p/...
183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1958
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Maurice Procter
66 books1 followerSometimes credited as Maurice Proctor.
Maurice Procter was an English novelist. He was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England. He 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.
Maurice Procter was an English novelist. He was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England. He 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.
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January 18, 2012
I was just randomly looking through books back in the stacks at my library, Lincoln Library, Springfield IL, and came across this novel. It is part of a series called, "50 Classics of Crime Fiction 1950-1975", which was designed to highlight excellent crime novels which have fallen out of fashion. I just began, "The Pub Crawler", and it's just fantastic!
MAURICE PROCTER (1909-1973) Procter was a constable in the Halifax borough police (Yorkshire) for twenty years and began writing fiction immediately after his retirement in 1946.
This is a really an exceptional Police Procedural Novel, and I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of that genre. Unfortunately, many of these kinds of novels are chock full of 'cardboard characters' who crowd the scenes, and the author jerks the reader round and round until the 'culprit' is finally exposed at the last possible moment. This is not the case with THE PUB CRAWLER. It is full of well defined characters, and I feel that it captures the essence of the late 1950's in a mid sized Northern England city (probably Manchester).
This is a tough one to find, but I think you will really enjoy it if you happen to stumble upon it.
MAURICE PROCTER (1909-1973) Procter was a constable in the Halifax borough police (Yorkshire) for twenty years and began writing fiction immediately after his retirement in 1946.
This is a really an exceptional Police Procedural Novel, and I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of that genre. Unfortunately, many of these kinds of novels are chock full of 'cardboard characters' who crowd the scenes, and the author jerks the reader round and round until the 'culprit' is finally exposed at the last possible moment. This is not the case with THE PUB CRAWLER. It is full of well defined characters, and I feel that it captures the essence of the late 1950's in a mid sized Northern England city (probably Manchester).
This is a tough one to find, but I think you will really enjoy it if you happen to stumble upon it.
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September 30, 2018Synopsis: Bill Knight is a newly inducted policeman; he's sent undercover to investigate the murder of a pub landlord.
December 3, 2015
Not bad. Not great. Just not bad.
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