Series; A Dalziel and Pascoe novel. Physical description; 374 p. ; 18 cm. Notes; Price-clipped. Summary; A ravage wood pocked with water-filled craters, men in uniform and a skeletal hand reaching out of the mud - this is not a World War I battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre. It is another case for Dalziel and Pascoe. Subjects; Dalziel, Superintendent (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Pascoe, Sergeant (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Police - Fiction. Pascoe, Peter (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Dalziel, Andrew (Fictitious character) - Fiction. English fiction. Crime & mystery. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General. Fiction / Crime. English fiction ; 20th century. Genres; Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Mystery fiction.
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Review:
The old trick of splitting a central character into two very different parts and using the tension to create literary sparks has worked for writers as diverse as Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin) and Patrick O'Brian (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin). Nobody in the mystery field does it better these days than Hill, whose down-and-dirty Inspector Dalziel (pronounced Dah-eel in the A&E TV series) jigs and jousts wonderfully with his smart, sensitive sidekick Pascoe. Their latest outing is one of the best in the series, with Pascoe digging up some old bones and family secrets from his own past. (Other Dalziel/Pascoe books include Blood Sympathy, Exit Lines, Pictures of Perfection, A Pinch of Snuff, Ruling Passion.)
From the Publisher:
Police Inspector Peter Pascoe has stumbled upon the remains of an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime. As he delves into the mystery of his disgraced great-grandfather's death, his partner, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, is preoccupied with a shapely animal rights activist. Eight female protesters have discovered human bones on the grounds of a drug company's research headquarters, and the investigation has a shocking connection to Pascoe's own family case.
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- PublisherCollins Crime
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 000232525X
- ISBN 13 9780002325257
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages380
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