Reginald Charles Hill was a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. After National Service (1955-57) and studying English at St Catherine's College, Oxford University (1957-60) he worked as a teacher for many years, rising to Senior Lecturer at Doncaster College of Education. In 1980 he retired from salaried work in order to devote himself full-time to writing. Hill is best known for his more than 20 novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel, Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield. He has also written more than 30 other novels, including five featuring Joe Sixsmith, a black machine operator turned private detective in a fictional Luton. Novels originally published under the pseudonyms of Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland, and Charles Underhill have now appeared under his own name. Hill is also a writer of short stories, and ghost tales.
Series
Books
Red Christmas
1973
Dream of Darkness
2010
The Woodcutter
2010
Singing the Sadness
1999
An Advancement of Learning
1971
Under World
1988
The Wood Beyond
1996
Ruling Passion
1973
One Small Step
1990
Exit Lines
1984
Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
2022
Death Comes for the Fat Man
2007
There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
1987
Bones and Silence
1990
Another Death in Venice
1976
Dalziel and Pascoe
Secrets of the Dead
2005
A Killing Kindness
1980
Arms and the Women
1999
Born Guilty
1995
Asking For The Moon
1994
The Spy's Wife
1980
Recalled to Life
1992
Child's Play
1986
On Beulah Height
1998
Death's Jest-Book
2002
The Roar of the Butterflies
2008
Who Guards a Prince?
1982
The Long Kill
2019
Traitors Blood
1983
A Pinch of Snuff
1978
A Clubbable Woman
1970
The Collaborators
1987
The Stranger House
2005
Beyond the Bone
1975
A Candle for Christmas & Other Stories
2023
Killing the Lawyers
1997
Holmes for the Holidays
1996
A Very Good Hater
1974
Pictures of Perfection
1950
Pascoe's Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime
1979
Singleton's Law
1997
An April Shroud
1975
Dialogues of the Dead
2001
Deadheads
1983
Fell of Dark
1971
Good Morning, Midnight
2004
No Man's Land
1985
A Fairly Dangerous Thing
1972
The Price of Butcher's Meat
2008
Midnight Fugue
2009
Blood Sympathy
1993
