Bill James (born 1929) is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms David Craig and Judith Jones. He was a reporter with the Daily Mirror and various other newspapers after serving with the RAF He is married, with four children, and lives in South Wales. The bulk of his output under the Bill James pseudonym is the Harpur and Iles series. Colin Harpur is a Detective Chief Inspector and Desmond Iles is the Assistant Chief Constable in an unnamed coastal city in southwestern England. Harpur and Iles are complemented by an evolving cast of other recurring characters on both sides of the law. The books are characterized by a grim humour and a bleak view of the relationship between the public, the police force and the criminal element. The first few are designated "A Detective Colin Harpur Novel" but as the series progressed they began to be published with the designation "A Harpur & Iles Mystery". His novel Whose Little Girl are You, written under the "David Craig" pseudonym, was filmed as The Squeeze, starring Stacy Keach, Edward Fox and David Hemmings. The fourth Harpur & Iles novel, Protection, was televised by the BBC in 1996 as Harpur & Iles, starring Aneirin Hughes as Harpur and Hywel Bennett as Iles. Works as Bill James ("Detective Colin Harpur" and "Harpur & Iles" novels) You'd Better Believe It, 1985 The Lolita Man, 1986 Halo Parade, 1987 Protection 1988, also published as Harpur & Iles 1992 Come Clean, 1989 Take, 1990 Club, 1991 Astride a Grave, 1991 Gospel, 1992 Roses, Roses, 1993 In Good Hands, 1994 The Detective is Dead, 1995 Top Banana, 1996 Panicking Ralph, 1997 Lovely Mover, 1998 Eton Crop, 1999 Kill Me, 2000 Pay Days, 2001 Naked at the Window, 2002 The Girl with the Long Back, 2003 Easy Streets, 2004 Wolves of Memory, 2005 Girls, 2006 Pix, 2007 In the Absence of Iles, 2008 Hotbed, 2009 I Am Gold, 2010 Vacuum, 2011 Undercover, 2012 Play Dead, 2013 Disclosures, 2014 Blaze Away, 2015 First Fix Your Alibi, 2016 Close, 2017 Hitmen I Have Known, 2019 Works as Bill James ("Simon Abelard" novels) Split, 2001 A Man's Enemies, 2003 Works as Bill James (other) The Last Enemy, 1997 Double jeopardy (a Kerry Lake novel - see Judith Jones, below), 2002 Middleman, 2002 Between Lives, 2003 Making Stuff Up, 2006 The