Gallows View
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 First edition (Canada) | |
| Author | Peter Robinson |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector Alan Banks, #1 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press (Canada) Scribners (US) |
| Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Followed by | A Dedicated Man |
Gallows View is the first novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in 1987,[1] but has been reprinted a number of times since.
Plot
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A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. Banks also has to deal with the local feminists and his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller.
References
[edit]- ^ Napier, Jim (2019). "Peter Robinson - ProQuest". Canadian Encyclopedia. ProQuest 2316382329. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
