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Author: Reginald HillFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Foul Play PrISBN-10: 0881503827
Edition Description: ReissueISBN-13: 9780881503821
Subject: Mystery, ThrillerPublication Year: 1996
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Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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Length:272 pages
Height:8.5 in.
Width:5.5 in.
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Weight:18.4 oz.

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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 National Service Man" recounts the alarming circumstances that brought them face-to-face (closer, actually) and nearly cost young Peter Pascoe his life. But this is only the first novella in a gathering of four of their most unusual adventures. A crusty and forthright sergeant once gave the detectives a bit of valuable advice: "Leave ghosts to them that understands them. You stick to crime". Yet in "Pascoe's Ghost", Pascoe boldly investigates the fate of a woman whom no one has seen for a year - except her brother, who claims her ghost is haunting him. And "Dalziel's Ghost" finds the portly inspector surprisingly willing to keep nightly vigil at isolated Sandstone Rigg farmhouse, tracking a ghost reportedly unearthed by recent renovations. Perhaps it is fitting that a volume opening with Dalziel and Pascoe's first case should end with "One Small Step", which could be their last. The year is now 2012. Pascoe is Commissioner of Eurofed Justice, while Dalziel is deep into retirement and reluctant to emerge. Both, however, are called upon to deal with a case quite unique in two particulars. First, it concerns the first man to be murdered on the moon. What's more, there are precisely two hundred twenty-seven million witnesses to the crime.

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This collection features the well-known British detectives Dalziel and Pascoe. Included are the stories of their first meeting and their investigation of the first murder on the moon. Recommended, especially for fans.
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The young and cultured Peter Pascoe and the rotund, gruff Andy Dalziel have been paired to memorable effect in several outstanding crime novels (most recently, Beyond the Wood). Now, Hill's loyal readers are presented with four novellas that, in turn, introduce the pair, let each take a rare solo detecting flight and, perhaps weirdest of all, enter a space-age future for an almost absurd swansong for the mismatched twosome. Dalziel is taken hostage in the first story, "The Last National Service Man," and the young Pascoe gets to meet the tough Yorkshire copper for the first time under very strained circumstances. Ghost stories permeate the next two adventures, "Pascoe's Ghost" and "Dalziel' Ghost." In the first, Pascoe hunts in vain for a missing woman; in the next, the duo sit out a long night in a haunted house, and Dalziel, after several good-sized hits on the whisky bottle, lets slip a few secrets from his past. Finally, in "One Small Step," an older, gout-riddled Dalziel is taken aboard a space ship at the start of the 21st century, after a French astronaut trips and dies stepping onto the moon in full view of the TV cameras. As always, Hill enjoys tampering with the traditions of the genre and these four works serve less as working narratives than as welcome changes of pace that incorporate character studies, intimate and unguarded moments and flights of pure fancy. (Nov.)
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Asking for the Moon: Four Dalziel and Pascoe Adventures

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0881503827
Title : Asking for the Moon: Four Dalziel and Pascoe Adventures
Authors : Reginald Hill
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Foul Play Press
Publication Date : 1996-11
Pages : 272
List Price (MSRP) : 21.00
Height : 1.0500 inches
Width : 5.7000 inches
Length : 8.5500 inches
Weight : 1.1300 pounds
Keywords : Contemporary, British, British Detectives, Mystery & Thrillers: Mystery: General, Mystery & Thrillers: General, All Titles, Hardcover
Condition : Good

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