Author: Reginald Hill
Alternate names: Dick Morland; Patrick Ruell; Charles Underhill
Born: 3 April 1936
Died: 12 January 2012
Bio: 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