📮 Inspector Martineau Investigates Series by Maurice Procter (.ePUB)

Maurice Procter (1906 – 1973) was an English novelist, was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England. In 1927 Maurice joined the police as a constable in Halifax, Yorkshire. At that time a policeman was not allowed to serve in his home town, and he was based at King Cross police station in Halifax, and initially lodged at the station. During the war Maurice was transferred from King Cross to Mixenden police station. In those days Mixenden was just a small village, so Maurice was the village bobby and he and his wife lived in the police house for 5 years. He began writing fiction whilst a serving police officer. His first book No Proud Chivalry was published in 1947 and as soon as he was earning an income from writing he resigned from the police force. Much of his work was written in the study of his home in Willowfield Road, though in later years he and his wife spent part of the year in Spain and Gibraltar. Procter is best known for his series of police procedural novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Martineau of the Granchester City Police. In his novels Granchester was an industrial city in the north of England. Procter based the city on Manchester.

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Inspector Martineau Investigates

Inspector Martineau Investigates Inspector Martineau Investigates

1 Hell Is a City (1954) aka Somewhere in This City

1 Hell Is a City (1954) aka Somewhere in This City Classic police procedural by a 'born storyteller' (Sunday Times), who combined natural flair with his experience in the police to truly authentic effect. When hardened criminal Don Starling escapes from jail, killing a prison guard in the process, Inspector Philip Martineau knows he will stop at nothing to make good his escape. The two men have known each other since childhood, and Starling blames Martineau for his incarceration a decade earlier. As the story hurtles to its conclusion, the two men meet in a final, violent confrontation.

4 Killer At Large (1959)

4 Killer At Large (1959) Guy Rainer had killed his fiancée's lover and had been sent to prison for seven years. Guy was not a man who accepted imprisonment—when he saw' a chance to escape, he did. Detective Inspector Martineau had sent Guy up. Now it was his job to find the escaped prisoner. The town of Granchester was alarmed at the thought of a killer at large in its midst; Guy's fiancée and her family, and Guy’s friends, were nervous—because Guy was out of jail and because they knew the police would be watching them in case Guy should try to get in touch with them. Then, in the midst of the hunt for the killer, Martineau was faced with another problem which might, or might not, be connected with the prison break. A nine-year-old girl, Dessie Kegan, had disappeared. Had Dessie been murdered? Had Guy Rainer taken her, for reasons of his own? Martineau had to work fast—and he knew it. The story of his hunt for a desperate man and a little girl is one of Maurice Procter's tensest, written with his usual skill and expert knowledge of police procedure.

7 A Body to Spare (1962)

7 A Body to Spare (1962) There was an extra body in the morgue—a body stripped of all identification and with its face badly battered. But when Inspector Martineau was called to the scene he had a pretty good idea of whose body it was. That was, however, just the beginning. There had been a big payroll robbery and Martineau suspected that an out-of-town group of mobsters had had an interest in the robbery. A young policeman was sent to investigate some odd behavior in a local night spot—and wound up paying considerable attention, on and off duty, to the attractive star dancer billed as Cleo Patra. While, at a funeral parlor, the quick were a considerably more active and dangerous problem than the dead.

9 Two Men in Twenty (1964)

9 Two Men in Twenty (1964) The XXC mob is giving Scotland Yard a run for its money, but the police have no idea who they are. As the gang is London-based, Granchester's Chief Inspector Martineau is not overly concerned. Then London gets too hot even for this gang. Cain, one of its members, decides they'll slip out of London one by one, so that Scotland Yard will think they've been done for. Then Martineau gets a 999 call early one Sunday morning: a safe has been broken into during the night. Martineau and team start to investigate, but they haven't got very far when there's another Granchester robbery. Martineau realises he's got the XXC gang on his hands - and that things are going to get pretty tough.

10 Homicide Blonde (1965) aka Death Has a Shadow

10 Homicide Blonde (1965) aka Death Has a Shadow Inspector Martineau has a nasty murder to solve: that of a blonde girl, aged just twelve. Martineau knows that child murder can be habit forming, that such cases encourage copycats. They have to move quickly. But they aren't quick enough, and two days later, the girl's death is followed by another. Granchester Police redouble their efforts, yet the killer escapes them. Feelings run high: for the parents, neighbours and the murderer ... Then the police close in on Cherub – young, plump, his mother's darling. But have they got the right man?

11 His Weight in Gold (1966)

11 His Weight in Gold (1966) Having Rafe Tyrrel, sometime Shakespearian actor, in one’s hands meant newspaper reporters hanging around—meant trouble, because the police did have Tyrrel but they didn’t have the half million pounds he’d removed from the British Post Office. And the Post Office job following so closely on the big train robbery was focusing far more attention on the world of crime than the authorities liked. “I’ve got him,” said Chief Prison Officer Kenny to Chief Inspector Martineau of the Granchester police, “to my sorrow. The money is your concern. I wish to hell he was someplace else.” Martineau nodded. “So do I.” “You’ve no need to worry,” said Kenny. “Haven’t I?” Martineau asked. “While he’s in those four walls he’s your problem, but the minute he gets out he’s mine. “What makes you think he’s going to get out?” “Half a million pounds makes me think so,” said Martineau. And he knew what he was talking about! For besides Tyrrel there were Lorraine, who went about veiled, and a prison librarian named Goosey, and Dixie Costello and his boys, and criminals whose brains and skills tested the police force fully.

13 Exercise Hoodwink (1967)

13 Exercise Hoodwink (1967) It started early on a clear morning in October, when two Granchester constables found a wrecked car with a very expensive radio in it. Although the car’s front seat was blood-soaked, not only was there no one in or near it, but no injured person had turned up in the nearest village. Then, many miles away, a body was found along the road. And a young patrolman on night duty in Granchester found an unlocked door at the shop of a dealer in precious stones, a man named White. The police wanted to talk to White. Meanwhile, White had talked to a man named Dixie Costello. “I’ve been robbed,” White said. “The police know my safe was opened, but they don’t know what was in it.” “What was in it?” “Forty pounds of industrial diamonds.” “Why don’t you tell the police?” Costello asked. “I would never get my diamonds back.” So begins one of Procter’s fastest-moving stories, a superb study of how the police get their man and how Exercise Hoodwink, a most ingenious man trap, finally helped break up the Costello mob.

14 Hideaway (1968)

14 Hideaway (1968) Detective Chief Superintendent Clay had been summoned to the Chief Constable’s office. There he found his boss talking with a civilian, Rupert Lansdowne, a man of influence in Granchester, a respected and successful businessman who’d unfortunately picked up the wrong girl one evening and was now, he said, being blackmailed with compromising photographs—typical blackmail pictures, Lansdowne and the girl in naked intimacy in a bedroom. Not a very unusual situation, this sort of blackmail. But it had become unusual in this instance, for Lansdowne was insisting that the blackmailer was Inspector Martineau! Martineau was one of Clay’s most trustworthy men: Clay insisted firmly Lansdowne must be mistaken. Lansdowne said no, he wasn’t. And as Martineau’s superiors began to investigate, some photographs were found in Martineau’s desk. A plant? Very possibly. But Clay couldn’t, of course, not do something about it. He went to see Martineau. “Chief Inspector,” Clay said, “I have received a serious complaint today. It is a criminal complaint of blackmail. There is an allegation that you are involved. What have you to say?” Anyone who has been a policeman for twenty years has had his share of hard knocks. Martineau had had more than his share. He denied the allegation. But his superior said, “You must know that on the evidence we have at the moment, I have no alternative but to suspend you from duty.” It was a shock to Martineau and to his confreres, who at once went to work on the case. And Martineau went to work to clear himself, unofficially, of course. The trail was complex and dangerous, and seemed eventually to involve Dixie Costello, now out of jail (he’d been sent there by Martineau). Was the trail a real one? Was there a crooked cop on the force? What about the lovely and perhaps too readily available Vanessa? This is one of Maurice Procter’s most exciting novels—fast, tight, knowledgeable and with a lovely plot.

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