Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 1
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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. Mary Connon froze out her husband, Sam, long ago. She likes the attention of other men-like the fellow members of Sam's rugby club. Naturally, when she's found dead in her sitting room with a hole in her head, Sam is a suspect. If only he hadn't suffered a dizzying scrum injury that's left everything a blur. He isn't sure that he didn't...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 2
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If Alison Girling, former principal of England’s Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 3
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A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid).
With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends-the chief suspect-is...
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With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house.
Dalziel isn't known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the house has died under unusual circumstances,...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 5
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Collins [for] the Crime Club
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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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...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 6
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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. The CID's Andrew Dalziel prefers simple killers. Not a crackpot who fancies himself Hamlet and taunts authorities with lofty quotes from the Bard. Dubbed the Yorkshire Choker, he's already taken three lives in four weeks and promises more tragedy to come. To help nab the serial strangler, Peter Pascoe has enlisted the help of linguistics...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 7
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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 the secret of Patrick Aldermann's success? Well, he was bequeathed his aunt's gardened estate after her sudden death; his wife's wealthy father died leaving the couple a hefty inheritance; and several fatal mishaps among colleagues have allowed the milquetoast to rise in his company with alarming speed. His boss fears he's hired...
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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. On the same night, three old men are offed: One is found in the icy rain sputtering the name "Polly" before expiring; another mumbles "Charley" after being beaten in his bathtub; and most alarmingly, the final words of the third, a cyclist knocked off the road by a drunk driver, implicate Superintendent Andrew Dalziel in the fatal...
9) 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...
10) Underworld
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 10
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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. Colin Farr has returned to Burrthorpe-and to judgmental whispers. His father had once been implicated in the disappearance of a little girl, and his apparent suicide confirmed the suspicions. Defensive, troubled, and handsome, Colin's only comfort is with his protective and infatuated tutor, Ellie, wife of Inspector Peter Pascoe. But...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 11
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On t.p.: A Dalziel/Pascoe mystery. What appears to be a simple murder case becomes more complicated as Pascoe and Dalziel peel away layer after layer of untruth.
12) One Small Step
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 12
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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. When astronaut Emile Lemarque takes an accidental-and televised-fatal fall from his lunar module, he stirs up more than moon dust. It's the far-flung future, and Peter Pascoe, now UK Commissioner in the Eurofed, believes Emile has made history-as the first man to be murdered on the moon. How can Pascoe prove it was sabotage when the...
13) Recalled to life
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 13
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Detective Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe must solve a murder rife with a thirty-year-old political scandal.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The mid-Yorkshire policemen find their impressions of village life changing when a policeman is reported missing in Enscombe.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 15
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The discovery of a long-buried body at the site of ALBA pharmaceutical headquarters is tied to a whole string of mysteries that involve the company, a group of animal rights protesters and their leader who happens to be involved in a romance with police Superintendent Andy Dalziel, and Chief Inspector Pascoe's family skeletons.
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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...
17) On Beulah Height
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 17
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Andy Dalziel had decided he would not be able to solve the disappearance of three young girls, and after twelve years, he finally forgot about it, but now children are vanishing again and Andy knows that the two cases are connected.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 18
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Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made them "the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction" (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Ellie Pascoe is a novelist, former campus radical, overprotective mother-and as an inspector's wife, on high alert of suspicious behavior. When she thwarts an abduction plot,...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 19
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When a series of seemingly accidental deaths are written about in a literary contest, Dalziel and Pascoe decide to investigate, and soon find themselves involved in a deadly battle of wits with an unseen enemy.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 20
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
557 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Yorkshire Detective Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe has tried repeatedly to put ex-convict Franny Roote away again without success, and starts his pursuit once more when Roote, working a new scam as an academic, begins sending menacing letters to Pascoe connected to the Elizabethan revenge tragedy Roote purports to be studying.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
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433 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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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...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, injured in an explosion that has left his partner Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel near death, ignores the pleas of his wife and his friends in order to pursue the truth about the cause of the blast which leads him to a mysterious group guided by the philosophy of fighting terrorists with terrorism, and that is apparently funded by people in high places.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
519 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks' care under a tender nurse. Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and...
24) Midnight fugue
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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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 fiancee, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...