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Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks
Banks is one of the important additions to detective crime novels of the late 20th century. Hes a diminutive police officer who has relocated from London to the Yorkshire village of Eastvale. Perceptive, and a good study of human nature. Married wit...
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Annie Cabbot
a detective sergeant in Harkside when she first appears in In a Dry Season...
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Sandra Banks
Alan Banks willowy blonde wife; she runs the gallery at the Eastvale Community Centre.more...
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Sergeant Jim Hatchley
Alan Banks lazy, out-of-shape sergeant; hes also loutish and sexist. Surprisingly, he and Banks generally get along.more...
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Dr. Jenny Fuller
A Professor of Psychology at nearby York University; pretty, intelligent and red-headed, she sorely tempts Alan Banks to stray....
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Superintendent Gristhorpe
Alan Banks boss. A supportive Yorkshireman.more...
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Brian Banks
Alan Banks son. An impractical young man who cant really settle on anything!more...
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Dr. Charles Stewart Glendenning
The crusty police medical examiner. Hes Scottish.more...
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Ken Blackstone
Detective Inspector at Milgarth Station with West Yorkshire CID and a friend of DCI Alan Banks...
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Dr. Burns
A police surgeon in Eastvale...
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Jeremiah “jimmy” Riddle
the social-climbing, blustery new Chief Constable, much given to clichés; he loathes DCI Alan Banks for not kowtowing to power, money, or the fickle media...
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Vivian Elmsley
the septuagenarian author of series of mystery novels featuring Detective Inspector Niven...
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Gloria Stringer
a beautiful, blonde "land girl" at Top Hill Farm in Hobbs End during World War II; she was 19 when she arrivedmore...
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Gwen Shackleton
the teenaged daughter who runs the newsagents-cum-general store in Hobbs End during the Warmore...
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Michael Stanhope
a rakish, successful artist living in Hobbs End during the Warmore...
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Adam Kelly
an imaginative 13-year-old boy who discovers a long-dead body...
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John Webb
an archeologist...
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Michael Shackleton
Gwen Shackletons beloved older brother, first, an engineering student and then, an engineer called up for the war; he falls in love with Gloria Stringermore...
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Geoff Turner
an odontologist who works with the North Yorkshire police...
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Dr. Ioan Williams
a physical anthropologist at the University of Leeds; he leers uncomfortably at DS Annie Cabbot...
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Millicent Cummings
an Assistant Chief Constable and the new Director of Human Resources; shes a nemesis of the sexist Chief Constable Jimmy Riddlemore...
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Inspector Harmond
a policeman in Harkside...
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Ruby Kettering
a kindly old woman who lived in Hobbs End with her husband from 1933 to 1940more...
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Frederick Kilnsey
a fire-and-brimstone Methodist who owns Top Hill Farm in Hobbs Endmore...
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Edith Kilnsey
Frederick Kilnseys much-put-upon wife more...
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Ray Cabbot
Annie Cabbots artist father, whos stuck in the 1960smore...
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Sean (sandra Banks)
a photojournalist, Sandra Banks much younger boyfriendmore...
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Betty Goodall
a disapproving, judgmental woman now in Edinburgh who lived in Hobbs End during World War II; she was the daughter of the vicar at St. Bartholomews in Hobbs End more...
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Alice Poole
a cheerful woman now in Scarborough who lived in Hobbs End during World War IImore...
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Cynthia Garmen
Gwen Stacklefords very good friend; she married an American GI and went to live in Pennsylvaniamore...
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Arthur Winchester
a minor clerk in the Ministry of Defence in London...
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Billy Joe Farrell
a sergeant from Tennessee assigned to the American air base at Rowan Woods...
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Edgar Konig
an American enlisted man who runs the PX at the American airbase at Rowan Woods...
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Ronald Bingham
Vivian Elmsleys diplomat husband; he died in 1967 of liver cancermore...
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George Henderson
an old flame of Gloria Stringer, an East End dock worker...
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Francis Henderson
George Hendersons son, born on Nov. 5, 1937 (Guy Fawkes Day), in the Londons East End; he later becomes a low-level criminal and a drug addict; when he becomes clean, he moves to Dulwichmore...
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Elsie Patterson
a very helpful witness to a suicide in 1950...
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Stan Patterson
Elsie Pattersons decrepit husbandmore...
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Brad Szikorski
a pilot in the American Army Air Corps who hails from California; hes stationed at the 448th Bomber Group in Rowan Woodsmore...
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Charlie Markleson
a navigator in the American Army Air Corps; hes stationed at the 448th Bomber Group in Rowan Woods; a bookish Harvard graduate, hes quite taken with Gwen Shackletonmore...
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Detective Superintendent Davidson
a police officer in London...
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Dr. Jennings
a psychiatrist in Leeds during World War II...
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Jem Hylton
Alan Banks neighbor in Notting Hill before he joined the police forcemore...
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Brenda Hamilton
a promiscuous girl found dead in a barn near Hadleigh, Suffolk, in 1952...
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Sergeant Whitkirk
a police negotiator...
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Graham Marshall
a schoolboy who stood up to a bully when Alan Banks was a boy; he disappeared without a trace...
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Wayne Dalton
a bent, lascivious detective inspector from Northumbria CID...