police procedural with a bit of wit, It's fromso it's midway between stuffier British police stories and say the freewheeling policework of Life on Mars or the new Tennison prequel, Sometimes credited as Maurice Proctor, Maurice Procter was an English novelist, He was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England, He attended the local grammar school and ran away to join the army at the age of fifteen, Inhe joined the police in Yorkshire and served in the force for nineteen years before his writing was published and he was able to write full time.
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was credited with an ability to write exciting stories while using his experience to create authentic detail, His procedural novels are set in Granchester, a fictionals Manchester, and he is best known for his series characters, Detective Superintendent Philip Hunter and DCI Harry Martineau.
Throughout his career, Procters novels increased in popularity in both the UK and Sometimes credited as Maurice Proctor, Maurice Procter was an English novelist, He was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England, He attended the local grammar school and ran away to join the army at the age of fifteen, Inhe joined the police in Yorkshire and served in the force for nineteen years before his writing was published and he was able to write full time.
He was credited with an ability to write exciting stories while using his experience to create authentic detail, His procedural novels are set in Granchester, a fictionals Manchester, and he is best known for his series characters, Detective Superintendent Philip Hunter and DCI Harry Martineau.
Throughout his career, Procters novels increased in popularity in both the UK and the US, and inHell is a City was made into a film starring Stanley Baker and Billie Whitelaw.
Procter was married to Winifred, and they had one child, Noel, sitelink.