Imagined crossover · Police detectives
What if Alan Banks met Andy Dalziel?
Yorkshire’s finest. Two great Yorkshire detectives with completely different styles.
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The pair
Alan BanksDetective Chief Inspector, later SuperintendentBy Peter Robinson · Inspector Banks · first in Gallows View
Andy DalzielDetective SuperintendentBy Reginald Hill · Dalziel and Pascoe · first in A Clubbable Woman
Chemistry7/10
Friction7/10
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Where and when
Yorkshire
The 1990s and 2000s
The story
- How they might meet
- A case that spans the Dales and Mid-Yorkshire brings the quiet DCI from Eastvale into Fat Andy’s territory.
- Why they would work
- Two great Yorkshire detectives with completely different styles.
- What each brings
- Banks is thoughtful, musical and good with people. Dalziel is shrewd, blunt and nobody’s fool.
- Where they would clash
- Dalziel would mock Banks’s music and his London past, and Banks would quietly prove him wrong.
Strengths compared
Alan Banks Andy Dalziel
Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.
On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- Gallows ViewPeter Robinson · 1987 · Alan Banks's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- A Clubbable WomanReginald Hill · 1970 · Andy Dalziel's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
