In this novel, the detective duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, are investigating murder amongst the upper classes and there is also the unlikely prospect of Dalziel being in love.
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'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
Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding’s ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Photograph By Keith Silva (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages and tight firm binding. Jacket is not clipped and just has a small repaired tear to the front top edge next to the spine. First print. A hard book to find. Seller Inventory # 9218
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Photograph By Keith Silva (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good first printing with usual tanning and staining and very gentle softening of spine tips in a very good unclipped dustwrapper with the original price of £2.95 intact, having creasing and rubbing to extremities and light toning to the back panel, nevertheless a very good example of an early Dalziel & Pascoe title.Neat previous owners signature to rear pastedown hidden by inner flap.A lovely copy. BOXED DESPATCH. Seller Inventory # 004388
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Photograph By Keith Silva (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good good first printing with a little softening to tips having some tanning/staining to foredges,with previous owners name to rear pastedown hidden by a likewise unclipped dust wrapper with the original price of £2.95 intact, having creasing and toning to the extremities.A very good example of an early Reg Hill title and very attractively priced. BOXED DESPATCH. Seller Inventory # ABE-14604225161
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