Bill Knox was the face of Scottish crime-fighting but his work as a thriller writer is less well known.
Decades before Inspector Rebus, Karen Pirie and Jack Laidlaw walked Scotland's mean streets, two detectives solved the nation's fictional crimes.
The winning book - Pilot Error - used his son's experience as a professional pilot and was later made into a film for German TV. In it, Bill reported on and asked for the public's assistance in investigating crimes across the central Scotland area.But he wasn't always in the force's good books. Enter Fort William based writer Barry Hutchison who writes his own crime novels under the pen name JD Kirk.
He and his wife decided to use their own publishing company - Zertex Media - to bring some of Bill's books back into print. They tracked down the original manuscripts and began fixing the thousands of errors in the original text."His books were everywhere. We found reviews worldwide including the New York Times, singing their praises in all these different places."
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