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Synopsis
‘Deplorably readable’ Observer
Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club – once the Residents’ Association and the local Women’s Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe’s dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered.
Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target...
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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
Review
'One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists.' (The Times)
'Celebrated for putting a spin on the classic murder mystery.' (The Independent)
'So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
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Hardcover. Condition: About Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. Michelle Maldeau (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). 1st US edition. First printing w/complete number sequence. A Detective-Inspector Pascoe and Detective-Superintendant Dalziel novel, this one finding them investigating the making of a possible snuff film. Blue boards w/navy cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering, 271 pages. Light edgewear, mild dampstaining to bottom edge of front cover, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, light dampstaining, moderate general wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 016280