Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 1936 – 12 January 2012) was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1978. Quotes Fell of Dark (1986) New York: Signet I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police. They are at once protectors and persecutors. They tell you the way, but they make you feel guilty for asking. Ch. 1 (p. 9) Sam got hold of her again and held her arms behind her back so we could all see. The other one tried to help, but I grabbed her and one of the others pulled her bra off. They started to shout but we put our hands over their mouths. Then Sam took her shorts off and got on top of her and started to do it. He was holding her round the throat so she couldn't scream. He started to do it and he shouted at me to start. I couldn't help it. I thought she probably wanted it anyway like Sam said. So I did it. The others helped hold her and she sort of fainted. Then Sam finished and he got up and I finished too and I got up. And Sam said it was someone else's turn. But when one of the others went over to his girl he said she wasn't breathing. He said she was dead. He said Sam had squeezed her throat too hard. Ch. 13 (p. 229) External links Category:1936 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Novelists from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature