John Buxton Hilton
John Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.
He wrote two books on language teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer - his works include the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood.
Books by John Buxton Hilton
Hangman's Tide
Playground of Death
Dead-Nettle
No Birds Sang
The Anathema Stone
Surrender Value
The Innocents at Home
Gamekeeper's Gallows
Death of an Alderman
Some Run Crooked
The Green Frontier
The Sunset Law
The Asking Price
Corridors of Guilt
The Hobbema Prospect
Passion In The Peak
Moondrop to Murder
Displaced Persons
Mr Fred
The Quiet Stranger
Slickensides
Series by John Buxton Hilton