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Reginald Hill
Full Series List in Order
Joe Sixsmith
1 - Blood Sympathy (1993)2 - Born Guilty (May-1995)
3 - Killing the Lawyers (Sep-1997)
4 - Singing the Sadness (Sep-1999)
5 - The Roar of the Butterflies (Jun-2008)
A Superintendent Dalziel & Sergeant Pascoe Mystery
1 - A Clubbable Woman (1970)2 - Advancement of Learning (1971)
3 - Ruling Passion (1973)
4 - An April Shroud (1975)
5 - A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
6 - A Killing Kindness (1980)
7 - Pascoe's Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime (1980)
8 - Deadheads (1983)
9 - Exit Lines (1984)
10 - Child's Play (1986)
11 - Under World (Jun-1988)
12 - Bones and Silence (Jul-1990)
13 - One Small Step (1990)
14 - Recalled to Life (Sep-1992)
15 - Pictures of Perfection (Sep-1994)
16 - The Wood Beyond (1995)
17 - Asking for the Moon (1996)
18 - On Beulah Height (Jul-1998)
19 - Arms and the Women (Sep-1999)
20 - Dialogues of the Dead (Jan-2002)
21 - Death's Jest-Book (Sep-2003)
22 - Good Morning, Midnight (Sep-2004)
23 - Death Comes for the Fat Man (Mar-2007)
24 - The Price of Butcher's Meat // A Cure For All Diseases (Mar-2008)
25 - Midnight Fugue (Oct-2009)
Books in Order: 56 titles
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A Candle for Christmas & Other Stories
- Oct-2023
- / Mystery
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A fantastic mystery short story collection, the perfect Christmas gift for crime fiction loversA beloved detective dies in a fireSherlock Holmes takes a trip to ItalyA disastrous case of mistaken identityFrom his well-loved detective duo, DCI Dalziel...
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Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
- Nov-2022
- / Mystery
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'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo’s trademark humour’ Daily Mirror‘These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados’ Guardian’Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo...
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The Forging of Fantom
- Dec-2019
- / General Fiction
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The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary. Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages -- a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal serv...
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Pascoe's Ghost
- Oct-2019
- / Law Enforcement
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Mystery stories by the Diamond Daggerâ€"winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" (The Sunday Telegraph). A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls -- as well as a visit from...
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The Woodcutter
- Aug-2011
- / Thriller
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Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairy tale. From his humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the woman of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Univ...
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Midnight Fugue
- Oct-2009
- / Law Enforcement
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It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancE, Commander Mic...
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The Roar of the Butterflies
- Jun-2008
- / Private Investigator
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Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion ...
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The Price of Butcher's Meat // A Cure For All Diseases
- Mar-2008
- / Police Procedural
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A bomb couldn't kill Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel -- but his convalescence at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown ("Home of the Healthy Holiday") just might. Sneaking out to the local pub provides Fat Andy with a bit ...
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Death Comes for the Fat Man
- Mar-2007
- / Law Enforcement
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Not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen... Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Ba...
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The Stranger House
- Oct-2005
- / Thriller
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In The Stranger House, Reginald Hill takes a break from his Dalziel and Pascoe series, and delivers a stunning stand-alone novel full of suspense, romance, history, and an exploration of the sometimes twisted side of the human psyche. The tiny vil...
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Who Guards a Prince?
- Aug-2005
- / Mystery
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From a Diamond Dagger winner: A dark tale of murderous conspiracies, secret societies, and a royal family in danger. After a series of hideous and gruesome crimes, Inspector Doug McHarg is asking questions -- but some people don't wan...
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Good Morning, Midnight
- Sep-2004
- / Police Procedural
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Yorkshire's coppers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are investigating the suicide of prominent businessman Pal Maciver. It seems to be a clear-cut case: he shot himself while sitting at his desk in his locked study. But things are not quite what the...
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Death's Jest-Book
- Sep-2003
- / Police Procedural
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Sometimes a monster can hide behind a mask of civilized, urbane intelligence. Sometimes the most terrible of crimes can go undetected and unpunished. Sometimes Death has a wicked sense of humor ......
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The Game of Dog
- 2003
- / Mystery
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'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
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Dialogues of the Dead
- Jan-2002
- / Police Procedural
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Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet th...
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Beyond the Bone
- Apr-2000
- / General Fiction
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Here is the first U.S. publication of a 1975 novel that originally appeared in Britain as Urn Burial under Hill's pseudonym Patrick Ruell. Set in a small town in Cumbria, it's the story of an archaeological dig that uncovers a small-town conspiracy a...
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Arms and the Women
- Sep-1999
- / Police Procedural
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A smartly dressed couple, looking entirely middle-class, has tried to abduct the wife of Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe. Not a woman to go gently into strange BMWs, Ellie Pascoe escapes. But the subsequent assault on a British matron close to the Pasco...
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Singing the Sadness
- Sep-1999
- / Private Investigator
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE Private investigator Joe Sixsmith, a former lathe operator whose skill at detection is part pure luck and part and uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, rushes into a burning cottage to save a young woman tr...
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The Turning of the Tide
- May-1999
- / General Fiction
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'I will never divorce you, though that is not to say that I might not be constrained some day to dispose of you.'
Emily Salter returned to the sleepy seaside resort of Skinburness where she had spent her childhood holidays to come to terms with the...
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On Beulah Height
- Jul-1998
- / Police Procedural
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With modernity raising its ugly head in Yorkshire, the grand idea of the Water Board was to flood a local valley to make a reservoir. Of course they had to bulldoze the homes of Dendale, the farming town inconveniently situated in that valley, first,...
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The Low Road
- May-1998
- / Suspense
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Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series has delighted readers on both sides of the Atlantic. This entertaining mystery, appearing in hardcover for the first time, was originally published as a paperback in 1974 as Death Takes the Low Road under the pseudony...
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Killing the Lawyers
- Sep-1997
- / Private Investigator
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A CASE OF BAD TIMING Laid-off lathe-operator-turned-private-eye Joe Sixsmith has the interesting knack of stumbling into situations that always seen to require some explanation. Like murder. Apart from the fact that he thinks they are pompous, ...
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Singleton's Law
- Aug-1997
- / General Fiction
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Picture an England in which the partisan hooliganism of football supporters has gotten completely out of control. Parliament has been dissolved and in its place, four clubs, all violently opposed to one another. Expatriate journalist Whitney Singleto...
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Matlock's System
- Jul-1996
- / General Fiction
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In Matthew Matlock's England, the population has been controlled and regulated by the "National Regulation of Life", dependant on what the economy can bear. This futuristic novel tells of Matlock, who introduced the system, and his desperate struggle...
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Asking for the Moon
- 1996
- / Police Procedural
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Many tales have been told by Reginald Hill about his renowned mid-Yorkshire detectives, Dalziel and Pascoe. But until now the long-anticipated story of the duo's first reluctant encounter has been withheld. Finally, here for the first time, "The Last...
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Red Christmas
- Nov-1995
- / Mystery
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A "fast and furious . . . thrilling and satisfying" Dickens-inspired whodunit by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series (Nero Award winner Robert Barnard). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapte...
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Born Guilty
- May-1995
- / Private Investigator
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Joe Sixsmith, quite possibly Britain's only black, balding, middle-aged, laid-off lathe operator-turned-private eye, met with deserving success in his debut last year in Blood Sympathy. His latest adventures in crime-solving land him in more trouble ...
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The Wood Beyond
- 1995
- / Police Procedural
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Police Inspector Peter Pascoe is looking for a place to bury his grandmum's ashes, when he stumbles upon a startling family secret--an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime. So preoccupied is Pascoe that he hardly notices the uproar in his own depart...
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Pictures of Perfection
- Sep-1994
- / Police Procedural
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It is nearly the Day of Reckoning in bucolic Enscombe, where the feudal paying of rents to Squire Guillemard is followed by feasting, gossip, and, this year, mayhem. Called down to investigate a missing policeman. Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel, ...
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True Thomas
- 1993
- / Horror
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An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Po...
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Blood Sympathy
- 1993
- / Private Investigator
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ALL THIS AND A MATCHMAKING AUNT, TOO... It is feast or famine for ex-machinist turned private investigator Joe Sixsmith. One minute he's dozing in his office, the next he's been hired by a self-proclaimed dabbler in the dark arts to retrieve a sto...
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Recalled to Life
- Sep-1992
- / Police Procedural
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It was a crime of passion in one of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case. But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel returns to the scene of...
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Bones and Silence
- Jul-1990
- / Police Procedural
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When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure who the culprit is. After all, he's got to believe what he sees with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see? And is...
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One Small Step
- 1990
- / Law Enforcement
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In the year 2010 a French astronaut, one of an international space team from the Federated States of Europe, becomes the first man to be murdered on the moon. Retired Detective-Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are required to investigat...
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The Collaborators
- Jul-1989
- / General Fiction
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First published in England in 1987, this novel departs from Hill's usual mystery oeuvre ( Ruling Passion ). With thoughtfulness and insight that call to mind le Carre, Hill reconsiders an aspect of the German occupation of France during WW II that ma...
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There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
- Dec-1988
- / General Fiction
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With gleeful malice aforethought, Hill explodes the genre of the short murder tale and diverts it to his own wicked, original ends. These six stories by the creator of mysteries featuring Detective Dalziel and Sergeant Pascoe ( An Advancement of Lear...
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Under World
- Jun-1988
- / Law Enforcement
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When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide -- t...
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Another Death in Venice
- Oct-1987
- / Suspense
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Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: "Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers" (Orlando Sentinel). Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Ven...
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Traitor's Blood
- Sep-1986
- / Suspense
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Stanhope-Swift, British aristocrat turned embezzler and gun-runner and a self-exile living in Venezuela, learns he has terminal cancer. With a few months to live, Lem attempts a secret return to England for a farewell to his daughter. Nabbed at Heath...
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No Man's Land
- Feb-1986
- / General Fiction
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"These lads here are on the run from the Army, it doesn't matter which Army, there's only one sodding huge Army in the whole world." The speaker is Australian Arthur Viney, leader of a multinational pack of WW I deserters who occupy a tract of land n...
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Child's Play
- 1986
- / Law Enforcement
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When a battered Ford Escort containing one very dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior Dalziel, are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play....
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Fell of Dark
- Jan-1986
- / General Fiction
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A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's...
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Exit Lines
- 1984
- / Law Enforcement
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Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause. Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a...
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A Very Good Hater
- Oct-1982
- / Suspense
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Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they've spotted a Nazi in disguise, in a thriller with "more surprise turns than most novels twice its length" (Kirkus Reviews). In postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other ...
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Who Guards the Prince?
- May-1982
- / Suspense
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Who would sever a tongue from a living mouth? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or terrify a young doctor into silence? The questions are piling up, and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them, even - especially - when he's warned off his inquiries by...
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Captain Fantom
- Sep-1980
- / Suspense
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Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake thirteen languages.. He was very quarrelsome and a great ravisher.. Set in the 17th Century, tells the story of this soldier of fortune's adventures in The Thirty Years War and in the English Civil War. ...
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The Spy's Wife
- Sep-1980
- / Suspense
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IN ONE MOMENT HER WHOLE WORLD EXPLODES. Molly Keatley's life couldn't be better. She has a comfortable home in a London suburb, friends, money--and Sam, her loving journalist husband. Then one bright September morning, Sam grabs a suitcase from th...
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A Killing Kindness
- 1980
- / Law Enforcement
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When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed...
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Pascoe's Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime
- 1980
- / Law Enforcement
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Whether Inspector Pascoe is snooping about in a storm-racked country churchyard or corpulent Superintendent Dalziel is wandering through the halls of a haunted house, readers will immediately recognize the intriguing territory of crime that is unique...
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A Pinch of Snuff
- 1978
- / Police Procedural
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A RISQUE BUSINESS The Calliope Kinema Club was located on very posh and proper Wilkinson Square, but its films were very naughty and not at all nice. Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe had no professional interest in blue movies, but he did see red ...
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An April Shroud
- 1975
- / Police Procedural
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After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andy Dalziel soon runs into trouble and water on his own solitary holiday. Rescued by a bunch of somewhat cheerful mourners, he accompanies them back to th...
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Ruling Passion
- 1973
- / Police Procedural
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From Yorkshire to the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, the distance will close off part of his life forever. Motoring down for a reunion with old friends, he arrives to find not a we...
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A Fairly Dangerous Thing
- Jan-1972
- / Suspense
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Joe Askern, an innocent schoolteacher, is blackmailed by a gang of thieves into helping them burglarize Averingerett, an historic local mansion....
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Advancement of Learning
- 1971
- / Law Enforcement
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Old crime, new corpse. When the statue of President Alison Girling was moved to make way for a new building, the older faculty of this small British college were quite upset. When her corpse was found moldering in a makeshift grave beneath it, they w...
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A Clubbable Woman
- 1970
- / Law Enforcement
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Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60. When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband -- the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss -- comes instantly under suspicion. But Andy Dal...
