John Buxton Hilton (1921–19 June 1986) was a British

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. Hilton was born in

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.He became a French teacher and later HMI in French. Ill health led him to early retirement and taking up crime writing in earnest. He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the

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John Greenwood. Hilton died in

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. Curtis Brown website, literary and talent agency
retrieved January 2018

Bibliography

Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series

*''Death of an Alderman'' (1968) (apa ''Dead Man's Path'') *''Death in Midwinter'' (1969) *''Hangman's Tide'' (1975) *''No Birds Sang'' (1975) (apa ''Target of Suspicion'') *''Some Run Crooked'' (1978) *''The Anathema Stone'' (1980) (apa ''Fatal Curtain'') *''Playground of Death'' (1981) *''Surrender Value'' (1981) (apa ''Twice Dead'') *''The Green Frontier'' (1982) (apa ''Focus on Crime'') *''The Sunset Law'' (1982) *''The Asking Price'' (1983) (apa ''Ransom Game'') *''Corridors of Guilt'' (1984) *''The Hobbema Prospect'' (1984) (apa ''Cradle of Crims'') *''Passion in the Peak'' (1985) (apa ''Holiday for Murder'') *''Moondrop to Murder'' (1986) *''The Innocents at Home'' (1986) (apa ''Lesson in Murder'') *''Displaced Persons'' (1987)

Inspector Thomas Brunt series

*''Rescue from the Rose'' (1976) *''Gamekeeper's Gallows'' (1976) *''Dead-Nettle'' (1977) *''Mr. Fred'' (1983) *''The Quiet Stranger'' (1985) *''Slickensides'' (1987)

Inspector Mosley series

*''Murder, Mr. Mosley'' (1983) (as John Greenwood) *''Mosley by Moonlight'' (1984) (as John Greenwood) *''Mosley Went to Mow'' (1985) (as John Greenwood) (apa The Missing Mr. Mosley) *''Mists Over Mosley'' (1986) (as John Greenwood) *''The Mind of Mr. Mosley'' (1987) (as John Greenwood) *''What Me, Mr. Mosley?'' (1988) (as John Greenwood)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hilton, John Buxton 1921 births 1986 deaths People from Buxton English crime fiction writers 20th-century English novelists English male novelists 20th-century English male writers