Child's Play (A Dalziel-Pascoe Murder Mystery) - Hardcover

Hill, Reginald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 002551590X ISBN 13: 9780025515901

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1987

Synopsis

Soon after the reading of a will that conditionally leaves huge amounts of money to various people, several murders occur, in the latest challenge to the sleuthing skills of Inspectors Dalziel and Pascoe

About this title

Review:

‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky’
Mail on Sunday

‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’
The Times

‘One of the masters of the modern police procedural’
Sunday Telegraph

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 organisation, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. As disgruntled relatives gather by 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. But when a dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play...

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

"So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder".
Susanna Yager, 'Sunday Telegraph'

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 002551590X
• ISBN 13: 9780025515901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1