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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 Dalziel, the gloriously vulgar savant of the Mid-Yorkshire police force, has some other ideas, and all of them center on the local rugby club--the town's social center, and Mary Connon's preferred hunting ground....
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 20
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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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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
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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.
Barreling his way into an investigation of possible terrorist activities, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is caught in the blast of a huge explosion at a video shop-and only "Fat Andy's" considerable bulk prevents...
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. It's the Day of Reckoning in the village of Enscombe, a two-day celebration among locals to feast and to pay old debts. When Enscombe's constable vanishes, it's time for Dalziel and Pascoe to upend the party. At first they're confronted with what appear to be only niggling hiccups in the enclave: break-ins, a vicar with a lustful...
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Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except... Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer. Pal's strange and strained relationship with his beautiful, enigmatic stepmother, Kay Kafka, also raises warning flags. And the family's shady corporate dealings...
6) Underworld
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 10
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Inspector Peter Pascoe and his superior, Andrew Dalziel, investigate the murder of a seven-year-old, while Colin Farr tries to clear his father's name.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 23
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Internationally bestselling and Diamond Dagger Award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets this mystery in the seaside resort of Sandytown, where Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is recovering from a bomb blast while solving a local murder in this "deeply satisfying whodunit" (Entertainment Weekly). Having narrowly survived injuries sustained when he was caught in a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is still on leave from...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 7
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Inspector Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a series of "accidental" deaths, all of which, in some way, benefit young business executive and rose gardening fanatic Patrick Aldermann.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 4
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After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon, 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 their rundown mansion-the owner of which, Bonnie Fielding, seems rather less troubled by her husband's tragic death than by trying to save her family fortunes. Interested in Mrs Fielding's ample charms, Dalziel stays on. But, by the...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 16
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The first story explores the chilling start of the Dalziel and Pascoe partnership. In another, they investigate the fate of a woman no one has seen for a year-except her brother, who claims he is being haunted by her ghost. Then the detectives keep vigil at an isolated farmhouse, waiting to see what is making things go bump in the night. Finally, we take a jump in time to the twenty-first century and the partners' last case: the first man murdered...
11) A pinch of snuff
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 5
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. What's playing at the Calliope Club may draw a furtive crowd, but as far as the CID's Andrew Dalziel can tell it's all perfectly legal. His partner, Peter Pascoe, begs to differ. From what he hears, an actress's violent ordeal on film looked all too real. When she turns up unharmed, it appears his suspicions were wrong . . . if Andrew...
12) Child's play
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 9
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks. Gwendoline Huby's passing has left her relatives more aggrieved than grieving. The wealthy and dotty widow has bequeathed the bulk of her fortune to her son, Alexander, missing in action since World War II. Then a stranger appears at the funeral claiming, against all odds, to be the phantom benefactor. Imposter or rightful heir? For...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 2
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A routine investigation into a five-year-old murder case leads Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Sergeant Peter Pascoe to the discovery of a series of related killings.
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When a woman is choked to death in a ditch, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from "Hamlet." The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. Unimpressed by the literary phone calls, Detective-Superintendent Dalziel is angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.
16) Ruling Passion
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 3
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Sergeant Pascoe finds his social life and work uncomfortably brought together by an horrific triple murder. Meanwhile, Superintendent Dalziel is on his back about a string of unsolved burglaries.
17) Recalled to life
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 13
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The New York Times has praised Reginald Hill for raising "the classical British mystery to new heights." Recalled to Life, a textured novel rich in psychological complexities and intricate narrative, brings Reginald Hill to still another level. Here, Detective Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe must solve a murder rife with political scandal, but one that happened almost thirty years ago. It was 1963, the year of the Kennedy assassination,...