Harry Martineau is a fictional British police detective created by Maurice Procter. He is a Chief Inspector in the industrial Northern city of Granchester, which was inspired by Manchester.^[1] Procter, himself a former police officer, wrote fourteen novels in the series published between 1954 and 1968. Martineau has been described as a transitional figure in detective fiction standing between the Golden Age detectives such as Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn and Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant and the newer fashion for police procedurals.^[2]

Novels

• Hell Is a City (1954)
• The Midnight Plumber (1957)
• Man in Ambush (1958)
• Killer At Large (1959)
• Devil's Due (1960)
• The Devil Was Handsome (1961)
• A Body to Spare (1962)
• Moonlight Flitting (1963)
• Two Men in Twenty (1964)
• Death Has a Shadow (1965)
• His Weight in Gold (1966)
• Rogue Running (1966)
• Exercise Hoodwink (1967)
• Hideaway (1968)

Film adaptation

In 1960 the first novel in the series was adapted into the film Hell Is a City directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker as Martineau.^[3] The film was shot on location in Manchester.^[4]

References

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