About John Buxton Hilton
Lived 1921 – 1986 (aged 64–65). John Buxton Hilton was a writer.
John Buxton Hilton (1921–19 June 1986) was a British crime writer. Hilton was born in Buxton, Derbyshire.He became a French teacher and later HMI in French. Ill health led him to early retirement and taking up crime writing in earnest. He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.
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British writer
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John Buxton Hilton was born in 1921.
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John Buxton Hilton died in 1986.
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John Buxton Hilton was a writer.
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