London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hill's fourth crime novel - "Schoolmaster Joe Askern has made a truce with life. His interests are simple and kept within safe bounds" - until he meets Cess Carter, the friendly local criminal and father to one of Joe's more delinquent students, and he finds that he has risked everything that matters to him. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2312433.