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Post by rgsp on Jan 16, 2012 22:41:33 GMT
I was very sad to hear that Reginald Hill died last friday of a brain tumour, at the relatively young age of 74. In my opinion he was one of the best writers in English of the 20th century, and will come to be regarded in the same light as Anthony Trollope or Wilkie Collins in the 19th. Many of his books were based on the framework of a detective novel, but the contemporary detail and social commentary in them were at least as entertaining, and in many ways more important. The cleverness, elegance and dry humour of his writing put him well above any of the "Golden Age" detective writers, with the possible exception of Josephine Tey.
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Post by stockslave on Jan 16, 2012 22:53:23 GMT
Reginald Hill was the creator of Dalziel & Pascoe. RIP
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Post by oxenboy on Jan 17, 2012 20:13:08 GMT
Joe Sixsmith series is worth reading
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