This SideTrack looks at some aspects of the life and works of Maurice Procter
| Books by Maurice Procter : Titles |
Many titles have been reprinted and are still in print
| Books by Maurice Procter : Details |
This list shows the various publication dates and the number of pages in that edition
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Published by Hutchinson [1962]
Published by Hutchinson [1972]
ISBN: -09-111150-1
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published in Collier's November 1st 1952
Published in 1951
Published in 1966
Published by Long [1976]
ISBN: -09-123250-3
Published in 1998
Published in 2001
ISBN: -75-408589-9
The first book about Chief Inspector Hunter.
The story is set in the West Riding village of Pennycross.
When the unsolved murder of 6-year-old Daphne Beaumont is
followed 8 months later by the murder of 5-year-old Jessie
Baker, Hunter and his assistant, Sergeant Dutton,
are again sent to investigate.
With 2 suspects and no major clues, Hunter establishes a set
of observation posts from which the police watch the village.
Hunter receives several personal taunts – a cardboard gravestone,
poison-pen letters, a scare-crow effigy.
The major part of the novel is narrated by Hunter.
Nice description of the village and its people, and of the
investigation.
Rather a flat ending and no real explanation of why the villain chose
to murder the two little girls.
The only surprise is when 20-year-old Barbary Beaumont says
that she will marry Hunter.
The book was subtitled Chief Inspector's Statement on Two Brutal
Child Murders.
It was published as The Pennycross Murders in the USA
Published by Hutchinson / White Lion [1965]
Published in 1974
ISBN: -85-617432-7
Published in the UK as Homicide Blonde
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published by Hutchinson [1960]
Published by Ulverscroft [1972]
Before the story starts, £20,000 in new notes has been stolen
in a robbery at the Northern Counties Bank.
The story begins when two accomplices of Granchester
mobster, Dixie Costello, are found shot dead.
Inspector Martineau investigates.
An anonymous caller tells how the two men were shot by a man whom
they had been chasing.
The man had been carrying a suitcase, and next morning, an empty
suitcase arrives at police headquarters.
In the local evening paper, the Found column carries a notice
that £10,000 has been found in the street.
The story takes us through the seedy world of prize-fighting and
organised crime.
Costello pops up again in Hell is a City
Published by White Lion [1962]
Published by White Lion [1973]
ISBN: -85-617412-2
A Chief Inspector McCool story.
A Dutch edition was published as Een Duivel bij Maanlicht
Published by Hutchinson [1961]
Published by Ulverscroft [1979]
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
The film was released under a number of other titles:
The Diamond Wizard,
Million Dollar Diamond.
Details are given in the entry for Million Dollar Diamond
The film was released under a number of other titles:
The Diamond,
Million Dollar Diamond.
Details are given in the entry for Million Dollar Diamond
Published by Hutchinson [1969]
Published by F. A. Thorpe Publishers, Leicester [1972]
ISBN: -09-096980-4
This was the last book to be published
Published by White Lion [1947]
Published by Longmans [1947]
Published in 1973
ISBN: -75-617372-X
Published by Longmans [1949]
Published by Hutchinson / Popular Library [1967]
Published in 1971
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
The film was directed by Wolfgang Storch.
The screenplay was by Frank Schaumann.
Others in the cast included:
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published in 1954
Published by Hutchinson [1972]
ISBN: -09-111160-9
A thriller set in Granchester in which Inspector Harry
Martineau tracks down an escaped prisoner, Dixie Costello,
whom he jailed 14 years earlier – in Devil's Due – and who now
turns murderer.
The inspector has a frigid, nagging wife who resents the time he
spends on his work.
Also published as Murder, somewhere in this city and
Somewhere in this city in the USA.
The book was adapted by Val Guest who directed the
1959 Associated British-Hammer film version under the same title.
This was his most successful book and, in 1972, Maurice said that it
had made him about £1,000
The film was produced by Michael Carreras
The music for the film was composed and conducted by Stanley
Black.
The black and white film was photographed in Hammerscope
by Arthur Grant.
It was filmed on location in Manchester – where the film adaptation
was set – and the interiors were filmed in the Associated British
Studios at Elstree.
The film ran for 98 minutes.
It was re-released in 1998.
The cast included:
Published by Popular Library / Harper & Row / Hutchinson [1968]
ISBN: -09-089690-4
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published by Hutchinson [1966]
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published by Popular Library [1965]
Published in the US as Death has a Shadow
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published by White Lion [1952]
Published in 1976
ISBN: -85-617442-4
It was published as The Ripper in the USA
Published in 1957
Published in 1966
Published by White Lion [1973]
ISBN: -85-617382-7
Published by Hutchinson [1959]
Published by J. Long [1976]
ISBN: -09-123240-6
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
in which
The story of his hunt, written with unusual skill, is gripping and
unflagging in its suspense and excitement
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
Published by Hutchinson [1958]
Published by Black Dagger [1957]
Published in 1996
ISBN: -74-518682-3
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
in which he rounds up a gang of burglars
This was the first of his books to be made into a film.
In 1972, Maurice said that he thought that it was
The screenplay was by John C. Higgins and Dennis
O'Keefe, under the name Jonathan Rix.
The film was produced by Steven Pallos, and directed
by Dennis O'Keefe and Montgomery Tully for United
Artists.
The film starred
Others in the cast included:
It was the first full-length 3-D film to be made in Britain
The film was released under a number of other titles:
The Diamond,
The Diamond Wizard.
Published by Ulverscroft [1971]
Published as The Policeman and the Lamp in Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine of July 1961
Published by Longmans Green [1946]
Published in 1972
This was the first book to be published and – according to a 1972
review in Police, the Journal of the Police Federation – still
ranks as one of the finest police stories ever written.
It took a critical look at the police force.
The book caused a stir at Halifax police headquarters, and there were
rumours of a libel action because of the book and some of his former
colleagues imagined that Procter had based his characters on them
It was reprinted in 1977 under the title of ??
The title of No place for magic when it was published in Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine in July 1961
This is listed as one of the 50 Classics of Crime Fiction
1950-1975
Published by Hutchinson [1956]
Published by I Henry [1980]
ISBN: -86-025163-2
Published in 1983
Published by Hutchinson [1952]
This was the first of his books to be made into a film, and appeared
under a number of titles:
The Diamond,
The Diamond Wizard,
Million Dollar Diamond
Published by Hutchinson [1967]
Published by White Lion [1974]
ISBN: -85-617402-5
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
in which he leads the hunt for a brutal killer
Published by Hutchinson / Chivers [1960]
Published in 2003
ISBN: -75-408637-2
Published by Hutchinson / Popular Library [1958]
Published by White Lion [1964]
Published by White Lion [1974]
ISBN: -85-617422-X
A story featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Martineau
In 1981, there was a German TV version of the novel under the title
Flucht aus London
A Body to Spare Ref 13-1
There was an extra body in the morgue – a body stripped of all
identification and with its face badly battered.
That was, however, just the beginning ...
The Bowstring Murders Ref 13-34 The Chief Inspector's Statement Ref 13-2 Death has a Shadow Ref 13-3 Devil's Due Ref 13-4 Devil in Moonlight Ref 13-28 The Devil was Handsome Ref 13-5 The Diamond [Film] Ref 13-36 The Diamond Wizard [Film] Ref 13-37 The Dog Man Ref 13-6 Each Man's Destiny Ref 13-7 The End of the Street Ref 13-29 Exercise Hoodwink Ref 13-8
When a murderous mobster-king confounds the police again – and
again – an ingenious mantrap is set...
Flucht aus London [TV Film] Ref 13-38
Helmut Düvelsdorf, Dorothea Kaiser, Joachim Kerzel, Bill Knox,
Claus-Dieter Reents
The Graveyard Rolls Ref 13-9 Hell is a City Ref 13-10 Hell is a City [Film] Ref 13-39
Hideaway Ref 13-11 His Weight in Gold Ref 13-26 Homicide Blonde Ref 13-27 Hurry the Darkness Ref 13-12 I will Speak Daggers Ref 13-13 Killer at Large Ref 13-14
... he must find Guy Rainer, the escaped prisoner who had been
sent to jail for 7 years for killing his fiancée's lover.
What would he do now that he was loose?
Police were watching closely in case he tried to contact his
frightened fiancée.
In the midst of the hunt, a nine-year-old girl, Dessie Kegan,
disappears.
Has she been murdered?
Did Guy take her for reasons of his own?
Was there actually any connection with the prison break? Martineau
had to work fast – and he knew it
Man in Ambush Ref 13-15 The Midnight Plumber Ref 13-16 Million Dollar Diamond [Film] Ref 13-35
a rotten film
Larry Burns, Dan Cunningham, Alastair Hunter, Gordon McLeod, Hugh
Morton, Arthur Mullard, Paul Whitsun-Jones, and Victor Wood
Million Dollar Mystery Ref 13-33 Moonlight Flitting Ref 13-30 No Place for Magic Ref 13-17 No Proud Chivalry Ref 13-18 Out for Christmas Ref 13-32 The Pennycross Murders Ref 13-19 The Policeman & the Lamp Ref 13-31 The Pub Crawler Ref 13-20 Rich is the Treasure Ref 13-21 The Ripper Ref 13-T1 Rogue Running Ref 13-22 Somewhere in This City Ref 13-S1 The Spearhead Death Ref 13-23 Three at the Angel Ref 13-24 Two Men in Twenty Ref 13-25
Page Ref: MMP186
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