- Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (16 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006510744
- ISBN-13: 978-0006510741
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 598,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’
The Times
‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’
Observer
‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Hill’s wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision’
Mail On Sunday
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‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’ Marcel Berlins, The Times
A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he’s going in search of something or running away.
Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there’s no doubt about it.
He’s running.
Set in his native Cumberland, this was Reginald Hill’s very first novel and its cleverly interwoven strands of detective story, psychological thriller and Buchanesque adventure prefigure much that in the intervening decades has taken him into the topmost ranks of British crime fiction.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Reginald Hill is a well established author now but I understand "Fell Of
Dark" is his first published work. It certainly indicated his future
standing as a master of the genre of mystery and suspense. This particular
story is a minor masterpiece for a first novel and the joys to come when
we came to know his characterisations,the delightful humour with which he
endowed them and his knowledge of the local areas he sets his tales in.
These qualties are evident in "Fell Of Dark", apart from the humour which
was inappropriate. However, "Fell Of Dark" stands on it's own two feet and
is quietly a 'gem' by the future eminent author.
Dark" is his first published work. It certainly indicated his future
standing as a master of the genre of mystery and suspense. This particular
story is a minor masterpiece for a first novel and the joys to come when
we came to know his characterisations,the delightful humour with which he
endowed them and his knowledge of the local areas he sets his tales in.
These qualties are evident in "Fell Of Dark", apart from the humour which
was inappropriate. However, "Fell Of Dark" stands on it's own two feet and
is quietly a 'gem' by the future eminent author.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Slightly disappointing but enjoyable just the same - after all it WAS Reginald Hill's very first novel. I have read most of his books, most are brilliant but Fell of Dark has a central character who is not very likeable.
15 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is very very good. It confirms Hill's place as the top male crime writer.
He could well be classified as a male Ruth Rendell, or Minette Walters.
Excellent
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