About Maurice Proctor
Lively realism is the keynote of Maurice Proctor's work and one which reviewers have often praised. For nineteen years he saw police methods at first hand, and observed character - criminal and otherwise - under every kind of emotional stress in circumstances not usually revealed to the average person.

The idea of becoming a novelist had been with him since boyhood. He ate, slept, worked his beat, wrote and rewrote until he found a publisher. His first book was something new: a story about real policemen and police work. Maurice Proctor resigned from the force and confidently started a new career. With each subsequent novel he increased his reputation, which is now considerable, both in this country and in America.

About HELL IS A CITY
Don Starling was 'King' of Grantchester's underworld until Detective-Inspector Martineau put him behind bars. But prison couldn't hold him - he had escaped and intended to 'get' Martineau somehow...

The news flashed out over the Grantchester police networks, to be followed by another more urgent flash, robbery - and brutal murder.

From the moment of violent robbery, that costs a young girl her life, through the relentless pursuit to the grim scene where a murderer pays the reckoning this is a taut, swiftly-moving crime story of that vicious world of hatred and violence that lies beneath the glittering exterior of a big industrial city.

First published by Hutchinson 1954
Arrow Edition 1957

Round Two of Tiger Standish's battle with his mortal enemy, Rahusen, ends with the latter well and truly K.O'd. But doing it cost Standish a good deal of panted breath and a lot of hard slogging.

This book gives the whole breathtaking story and if you know your Sydney Horler you will know just how much excitement, suspense and blood-thirsty action you are going to enjoy before the last page.

If you're a woman you'll probably fall for Standish, and if you have an eye for a good-looking girl you'll certainly go cuckoo over Sonia - but don't let Standish know, he packs a hard punch!

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