Harry Martineau

Harry Martineau is a fictional British police detective created by Maurice Procter. He is a Chief Inspector in the industrial Northern city of Granchester, which was inspired by Manchester. Procter, himself a former police officer, wrote fourteen novels in the series published between 1954 and 1968. Martineau has been described as a transitional figure in detective fiction standing between the Golden Age detectives such as Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn and Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant and the newer fashion for police procedurals.

Novels

 * Hell Is a City (1954)
 * The Midnight Plumber (1957)
 * Man in Ambush (1958)
 * Killer At Large (1959)
 * Devil's Due (1960)
 * The Devil Was Handsome (1961)
 * A Body to Spare (1962)
 * Moonlight Flitting (1963)
 * Two Men in Twenty (1964)
 * Death Has a Shadow (1965)
 * His Weight in Gold (1966)
 * Rogue Running (1966)
 * Exercise Hoodwink (1967)
 * Hideaway (1968)

Film adaptation
In 1960 the first novel in the series was adapted into the film Hell Is a City directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker as Martineau. The film was shot on location in Manchester.