
The Crime Club by Collins,, (1972). Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing on the folds, minor edgewear). First printing. Hill's fourth crime novel - "Schoolmaster Joe Askern has made a truce with life. His interests are simple and kept within safe bounds" - until he meets Cess Carter, the friendly local criminal and father to one of Joe's more delinquent students, and he finds that he has risked everything that matters to him. 190 pp.
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1936–2012
Reginald Charles Hill was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. Hill is best known for his more than 20 novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel, Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield. The characters were used by the BBC in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. - Wikipedia
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