Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Mary Connon froze out her husband, Sam, long ago. She likes the attention of other men-like the fellow members of Sam's rugby club. Naturally, when she's found dead in her sitting room with a hole in her head, Sam is a suspect. If only he hadn't suffered a dizzying scrum injury that's left everything a blur. He isn't sure that he didn't...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1985.
Edition
First American edition.
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English
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 3
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English
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A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid).
With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends-the chief suspect-is...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house.
Dalziel isn't known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the house has died under unusual circumstances,...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Yorkshire s detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an undeniably lively mystery of murder and illusion ( Kirkus Reviews ). Reginald Hill raised the classical British mystery to new heights when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det.Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe ( The New York Times Book Review ). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. The CID's Andrew Dalziel prefers simple killers. Not a crackpot who fancies himself Hamlet and taunts authorities with lofty quotes from the Bard. Dubbed the Yorkshire Choker, he's already taken three lives in four weeks and promises more tragedy to come. To help nab the serial strangler, Peter Pascoe has enlisted the help of linguistics...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[1983]
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English
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Inspector Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a series of "accidental" deaths, all of which, in some way, benefit young business executive and rose gardening fanatic Patrick Aldermann.
8) Exit lines
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 8
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English
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. On the same night, three old men are offed: One is found in the icy rain sputtering the name "Polly" before expiring; another mumbles "Charley" after being beaten in his bathtub; and most alarmingly, the final words of the third, a cyclist knocked off the road by a drunk driver, implicate Superintendent Andrew Dalziel in the fatal...
9) Child's play
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
Description
Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks. Gwendoline Huby's passing has left her relatives more aggrieved than grieving. The wealthy and dotty widow has bequeathed the bulk of her fortune to her son, Alexander, missing in action since World War II. Then a stranger appears at the funeral claiming, against all odds, to be the phantom benefactor. Imposter or rightful heir? For...
10) Underworld
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First American edition.
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English
Description
Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Colin Farr has returned to Burrthorpe-and to judgmental whispers. His father had once been implicated in the disappearance of a little girl, and his apparent suicide confirmed the suspicions. Defensive, troubled, and handsome, Colin's only comfort is with his protective and infatuated tutor, Ellie, wife of Inspector Peter Pascoe. But...
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A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller- "The climax is devastating" ( The Times London). Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot-but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year...
12) One Small Step
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 12
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. When astronaut Emile Lemarque takes an accidental-and televised-fatal fall from his lunar module, he stirs up more than moon dust. It's the far-flung future, and Peter Pascoe, now UK Commissioner in the Eurofed, believes Emile has made history-as the first man to be murdered on the moon. How can Pascoe prove it was sabotage when the...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks. It was a cold-blooded murder committed in one of Yorkshire's country estates. The conspirators: Sir Ralph Mickledore and his lover, American nanny Cissy Kohler. The victim: Mickledore's hapless wife. Mickledore's execution for the open-and-shut case made headlines. Thirty years later, so has Cissy's parole in light of new testimony...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The first story explores the chilling start of the Dalziel and Pascoe partnership. In another, they investigate the fate of a woman no one has seen for a year-except her brother, who claims he is being haunted by her ghost. Then the detectives keep vigil at an isolated farmhouse, waiting to see what is making things go bump in the night. Finally, we take a jump in time to the twenty-first century and the partners' last case: the first man murdered...
17) On Beulah Height
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. It's been fifteen years since three girls were abducted from Dendale. Just as long since the village was flooded to create a reservoir. Haunted by the cold case, Andrew Dalziel believes the truth was submerged forever. But now, with a drought, the ruins of Dendale are reemerging-along with its mysteries. And as if by a terrible twist...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 20
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English
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From the winner of Britian's prestigious Diamond Dagger Award, comes a beautifully written, multilayered psychological thriller Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he's determined to get his man. In a brilliant novel of psychological suspense, acclaimed...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 21
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English
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A complex and deeply satisfying tale ... one part traditional English whodunit and one part shadowy corporate thriller. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except ... Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer....
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Not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen ... Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever.
Barreling his way into an investigation of possible terrorist activities, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is caught in the blast of a huge explosion at a video shop-and only "Fat Andy's" considerable bulk prevents...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 23
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English
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Internationally bestselling and Diamond Dagger Award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets this mystery in the seaside resort of Sandytown, where Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is recovering from a bomb blast while solving a local murder in this "deeply satisfying whodunit" (Entertainment Weekly). Having narrowly survived injuries sustained when he was caught in a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is still on leave from...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
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English
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Reginald Hill, award-winning author of The Price of Butcher's Meat and Death Comes for the Fat Man , returns with Midnight Fugue , a riveting new crime novel featuring Yorkshire coppers Dalziel and Pascoe as they tackle the case of a detective who went missing seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London, Midnight Fugue is a riveting, complex...