Ampleforth College Yorkshire


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Ampleforth College Yorkshire

Ampleforth College Yorkshire

Reginald Hill was born in 1936, graduated from Oxford in 1960, and was a college lecturer in Doncaster, Yorkshire, until 1980 when he became a full-time writer. He has many successful and well-received novels including some "stand alone" novels such as The Collaborators (1987) and The Stranger House (2005). He has also written as Charles Underhill, Patrick Ruell and Dick Morland. He has written another series of detective stories about black private detective, Joe Sixmith.

Dalziel and Pascoe

His most well-known series of books has been about Andy Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and Peter Pascoe. The first in the series, A Clubbable Woman was written in 1970, the most recent, Midnight Fugue in 2009. The twenty-four books (twenty-three novels and one book of short stories) have come at regular intervals over the years and are characterised by humour, great character development and a literary and intellectual approach to the crime genre.

Dalziel is the bluff Superintendent while Pascoe is the intellectual graduate. The two contrasting approaches to crime initially conflict in the early novels, but an unlikely affection develops between the two characters. Considering 39 years have passed since the first novel, the characters have not aged at that rate, while the world they inhabit has, but the characters have certainly aged and developed. By the later novels, Pascoe in particular has become much, more more like Dalziel.