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Hell Is a City (novel)

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Hell Is a City
First edition
AuthorMaurice Procter
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHarry Martineau
GenreCrime
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Harper (US)
Publication date
1954
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Followed byThe Midnight Plumber 

Hell Is a City is a 1954 crime novel by the British writer Maurice Procter.[1] It was the first in a series featuring Chief Inspector Harry Martineau, set in the Northern industrial city of Granchester. It takes the form of a police procedural, and marked a transition away from the traditional Golden Age detective novel.[2] Published by Hutchinson, it was released in the United States by Harper the same year under the alternative title Somewhere in This City.[3]

Film version

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In 1960 the novel was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker, John Crawford and Donald Pleasence.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Dove p.258
  2. ^ Reilly p.1216
  3. ^ Vicarel p.218
  4. ^ Goble p.376

Bibliography

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  • Dove, George N. The Police Procedural. Popular Press, 1982.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Vicarel, Jo Ann. A Reader's Guide to the Police Procedural. G.K. Hall, 1995.