Maurice Procter
By the Author
The Chief Inspector's Statement
A small village is the scene of two brutal murders - and everyone is under suspicion. A classic of crime fiction The village of Pennycross…
Rich is the Treasure
US Federal agent John Dennison arrives in the UK to meet Chief Inspector Philip Hunter of Scotland Yard, and to find $300,000, smuggled ashore via…
His Weight in Gold
Actor turned thief Rafe Tyrrel knows where more than two and a half million pounds is hidden, the proceeds of a Royal Mail train robbery…
Two Men in Twenty
The XXC mob is giving Scotland Yard a run for its money, but the police have no idea who they are. As the gang is…
Three at the Angel
Lou Fingerhut's boxing career is finished, but a golden opportunity drops into his lap, one that could see him right for life. Soon he and…
The Spearhead Death
It looks like a trivial enough incident: a would-be petty thief makes his escape before he has stolen anything. But when the beat constable arrives…
Exercise Hoodwink
Two Granchester constables find a wrecked, blood-soaked car. But there's no one in it, and no one has turned up at the nearest village. Then,…
Homicide Blonde
Inspector Martineau has a nasty murder to solve: that of a blonde girl, aged just twelve. Martineau knows that child murder can be habit forming,…
Rogue Running
One Saturday, DC Brabant walks into the CID office of Granchester City Police. He has been at the football, looking for pickpockets, and has had…
I Will Speak Daggers
Janey Elliott fails to return home one evening from a friend's, and her husband John goes out looking for her car. He and the friend's…
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…
The Dog Man
A cunning burglar is on the loose, nicknamed the Dog Man by police. House after house is broken into while savage dogs remain quiet. Then…
Hell is a City
Hell is a City is the first of Maurice Procter's Inspector Martineau series and was made into taut, fast-paced film in 1959 by Hammer Studios,…
Hideaway
When a respected and successful businessman claims that he is being blackmailed by Inspector Martineau, and provides evidence to support his allegations, the policeman's superiors…
Devil in Moonlight
'The door was open. McCool stood in the doorway and switched on the light. He gazed at an open safe, and then he turned his…
The Midnight Plumber
'Maurice Procter's Chief Inspector Martineau is one of fiction's best policemen' New York Times The Plumber's men are swift workers, who take murder in their…
Moonlight Flitting
A millionaire's sage-green Rolls Royce has been discovered, empty, beside a graveyard, and a little later the murdered body of the millionaire is discovered inside…
Killer at Large
Imprisoned for seven years for killing his fiancée's lover, now Guy Rainer has escaped, and Detective Inspector Martineau is on his trail. Martineau had sent…
The Devil Was Handsome
When Sergeant Devery is allotted a female police office to assist him on a plain-clothes prowl he is concerned it will cramp his style. He…
Man in Ambush
Chief Inspector Martineau and Sergeant Devery have every motive for finding and pursuing a killer who murdered their friend and colleague Inspector Robert McQuade, especially…
Devil's Due
An anonymous telephone call reports two murders and a bank robbery, and the following day an advertisement in the local paper reports that £10,000 in…
A Body to Spare
There was an extra body in the morgue - a body stripped of all identification and with its face badly battered. But when Inspector Martineau…