Deadheads: Stage 6 (Oxford Bookworms S.) - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194226840 ISBN 13: 9780194226844

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

"Oxford Bookworms" offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers. The language controls used in "Oxford Bookworms" are based on a syllabus specially created for the series by Tricia Hedge. This takes account of the more traditional approaches to grading and recent research into the nature of reading difficulty. The approximate vocabulary count for each stage is: Stage 1 - 400 words; Stage 2 - 700 words; Stage 3 - 1000 words; Stage 4 - 1400 words; Stage 5 - 1800 words; Stage 6 - 2500 words. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a supporting glossary to help students with vocabulary. Illustrations are used, especially at the lower stages, to help comprehension.

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 finest male English contemporary crime writer' Val McDermid

'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'
Ian Rankin

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' The Times

'These novels last, like a grand malt whisky – rounded, rich, intoxicating... Here is an author at his formidable best'
Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

'So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder' Sunday Telegraph

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

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney, Observer

From the Back Cover:

Life is a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapses into her Madame Louis Laperrières and he inherits Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.

But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then retracts the accusation – the inspector is left with a thorny problem.

By then Police Cadet Singh, Mid-Yorkshire’s first Asian copper, has drug up some vary interesting information about Patrick’s elegant wife, Daphne.

Superintendent Dalziel, meanwhile, is attempting to relive the days of Empire with Singh as his tea-wallah.

‘Their [Dalziel and Pascoe’s] double act... is one of the delights of English crime fiction’
MARCEL BERLINS, 'THE TIMES'

‘Here is an author at his formidable best’
FRANCES HEGARTY, 'MAIL ON SUNDAY'

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0194226840
• ISBN 13: 9780194226844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 111