Child's Play: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel (The crime club) - Hardcover

Hill, Reginald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002320924 ISBN 13: 9780002320924

Publisher: Collins Crime Club, 1987

Synopsis

Ex-Library With Front End Page Missing. Tippex Marks On Intro Page, Small Library Stamp On Dedication Page And Inside Of Rear Board. Spine Bumped And Minor Marks To Boards. Jacket Has Wear To Edges, Rear Is Creased At Top With A One Inch Tear On Flap And Rear.

About this title

Review:

‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’ Donna Leon, Sunday Times

‘The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight’ Val McDermid, Sunday Express

‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent

‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining’ Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

‘An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Francis Fyfield, Mail On Sunday

From the Back Cover:

Geraldine Lomas's son went missing in Italy during World War Two, but the eccentric old lady never accepted his death.

Now she is dead, leaving the Lomas beer fortune to be divided between an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund.

As disgruntled relatives gather at the graveside, the funeral is interrupted by a middle-aged man in an Italian suit, who falls to his knees crying 'Mama!'

Andy Dalziel is preoccupied with the illegal book one of his sergeants is running, on who is to be appointed as the new Chief Constable – and how to make his own bet pay off. But when a battered Ford Escort containing one dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior are plunged into an investigation that makes internal politics look like child's play...

“Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction”
TOM HINEY, 'Observer'

“Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace”
DONNA LEON, 'Sunday Times'

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Crime Club
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0002320924
• ISBN 13: 9780002320924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296