Fell of Dark

Fell of Dark
Reginald Hill

‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’ Marcel Berlins, The TimesA 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, a unique blend of detective story, psychological thriller and Buchanesque adventure that was to lay the groundwork for many books to come, taking him into the top ranks of British crime fiction.

REGINALD HILL

FELL OF DARK

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1971

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For my mother

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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

What hours, O what black hours we have spent

This night! what sights you, heart, saw.

—G. M. Hopkins

CONTENTS

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I possess the Englishman’s usual ambivalent attitude to the police. They are at once protectors and persecutors. They tell you the way, but they make you feel guilty for asking.