Harry Martineau is a fictional British police detective created by Maurice Procter.
He is a Chief Inspector in the industrial Northern city of Granchester, which was inspired by Manchester.
[1] Procter, himself a former police officer, wrote fourteen novels in the series published between 1954 and 1968.
Martineau has been described as a transitional figure in detective fiction standing between the Golden Age detectives such as Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn and Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant and the newer fashion for police procedurals.
[2] In 1960 the first novel in the series was adapted into the film Hell Is a City directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker as Martineau.