Reginald Hill (Also wrote as Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland and Charles Underhill, 1936–2012), 1970: A Clubbable Woman

Abstract

From his first novel, A Clubbable Woman (1970), which introduced his longest-running series characters Dalziel (Dee-ell) and Pascoe, Reginald Hill developed the place of Northern England in the contemporary crime novel. Born in Hartlepool in 1936 to Reginald and Isabel Hill, his family later moved to County Cumberland, now Cumbria, in the Lake District, which is the setting of his second novel, Fell of Dark (1971). He completed his national service in the British Army Border Regiment between 1955 and 1957, after which he attended St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he earned a B. A.