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New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: 'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney, Observer In the Beginning was the Word! A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents! yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths. In Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no-one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman.
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Praise for Reginald Hill:
“Hill remains one of the finest crime writers of this era.”
— Booklist (starred review)
“Hill’s polished, sophisticated novels are intelligently written and permeated with his sly and delightful sense of humor. More than most other mystery novels, Hill’s DalzielPascoe novels are enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated, suspenseful mystery plots.”
— The Christian Science Monitor
“Reginald Hill blends civility and madness in a most agreeable way.”
— New York
“A lot of people write classic detective stories, but Reginald Hill is one of the elite few who write classy classics.”
— The Baltimore Sun
“The real joy of the Dalziel-Pascoe books is the writing and the characterizations. Mr. Hill has such disparate writers as Trollope, Beerbohm, Sayers and Shaw in his blood.”
— The New York Times
“There is no doubt that England’s Reginald Hill is one of the greats.”
— Rocky Mountain News
From the Inside Flap:
“Hill remains one of the finest crime writers of this era.”
— Booklist (starred review)
“Hill’s polished, sophisticated novels are intelligently written and permeated with his sly and delightful sense of humor. More than most other mystery novels, Hill’s DalzielPascoe novels are enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated, suspenseful mystery plots.”
— The Christian Science Monitor
“Reginald Hill blends civility and madness in a most agreeable way.”
— New York
“A lot of people write classic detective stories, but Reginald Hill is one of the elite few who write classy classics.”
— The Baltimore Sun
“The real joy of the Dalziel-Pascoe books is the writing and the characterizations. Mr. Hill has such disparate writers as Trollope, Beerbohm, Sayers and Shaw in his blood.”
— The New York Times
“There is no doubt that England’s Reginald Hill is one of the greats.”
— Rocky Mountain News
ald Hill has raised the classical British mystery to new heights.”
— The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed as “the master of form and the sorcerer of style,”* the Grand Master of British psychological suspense returns to weave wordplay and murder into a lethal tapestry that only Dalziel and Pascoe can unravel.
With characteristic precision,insidious wit, and unparalleled insight into the serpentine criminal mind, Hill offers readers his most diabolical surprise to date.
Dialogues of the Dead
Paronomania [n. A clinical obsession with word games]
In the Beginning was the Word...
And the Word was Murder.
A motorist dies after plunging off a bridge.... A motorcyclist is found dead after a fatal encounter with a tree. Two apparently innocuous tragedies ... until two Dialogues are submitted to a local literary competition, claiming responsibilit
— The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed as “the master of form and the sorcerer of style,”* the Grand Master of British psychological suspense returns to weave wordplay and murder into a lethal tapestry that only Dalziel and Pascoe can unravel.
With characteristic precision,insidious wit, and unparalleled insight into the serpentine criminal mind, Hill offers readers his most diabolical surprise to date.
Dialogues of the Dead
Paronomania [n. A clinical obsession with word games]
In the Beginning was the Word...
And the Word was Murder.
A motorist dies after plunging off a bridge.... A motorcyclist is found dead after a fatal encounter with a tree. Two apparently innocuous tragedies ... until two Dialogues are submitted to a local literary competition, claiming responsibilit
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- ISBN 13 9780006512882
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