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Bill James (born 1929) is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms ''David Craig'' and ''Judith Jones''. He was a reporter with the Daily Mirror and various other newspapers after serving with the RAF He is married, with four children, and lives in South Wales. The bulk of his output under the Bill James pseudonym is the ''Harpur and Iles'' series. Colin Harpur is a Detective Chief Inspector and Desmond Iles is the Assistant Chief Constable in an unnamed coastal city in southwestern England. Harpur and Iles are complemented by an evolving cast of other recurring characters on both sides of the law. The books are characterized by a grim humour and a bleak view of the relationship between the public, the police force and the criminal element. The first few are designated "A Detective Colin Harpur Novel" but as the series progressed they began to be published with the designation "A Harpur & Iles Mystery". His novel ''Whose Little Girl are You'', written under the "David Craig" pseudonym, was filmed as ''The Squeeze'', starring Stacy Keach, Edward Fox and David Hemmings. The fourth ''Harpur & Iles'' novel, ''Protection'', was televised by the BBC in 1996 as ''Harpur & Iles'', starring Aneirin Hughes as Harpur and Hywel Bennett as Iles. == Works as Bill James ("Detective Colin Harpur" and "Harpur & Iles" novels) == * ''You'd Better Believe It'', 1985 * ''The Lolita Man'', 1986 * ''Halo Parade'', 1987 * ''Protection'' 1988, also published as ''Harpur & Iles'' 1992 * ''Come Clean'', 1989 * ''Take'', 1990 * ''Club'', 1991 * ''Astride a Grave'', 1991 * ''Gospel'', 1992 * ''Roses, Roses'', 1993 * ''In Good Hands'', 1994 * ''The Detective is Dead'', 1995 * ''Top Banana'', 1996 * ''Panicking Ralph'', 1997 * ''Lovely Mover'', 1998 * ''Eton Crop'', 1999 * ''Kill Me'', 2000 * ''Pay Days'', 2001 * ''Naked at the Window'', 2002 * ''The Girl with the Long Back'', 2003 * ''Easy Streets'', 2004 * ''Wolves of Memory'', 2005 * ''Girls'', 2006 * ''Pix'', 2007 * ''In the Absence of Iles'', 2008 * ''Hotbed'', 2009 * ''I Am Gold'', 2010 * ''Vacuum'', 2011 * ''Undercover'', 2012 * ''Play Dead'', 2013 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill James (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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