Dalziel & Pascoe 16: Asking For The Moon by Reginald Hill, ISBN 9780006479345

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If you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a revelation! Here in four stories we track their partnership from curtain-up to last act.

'The Last National Service Man' reveals the truth of their momentous first encounter, while 'Pascoe's Ghost' is a chilling tale taking us deep into Poe country. 'Dalziel's Ghost', meanwhile, finds the man who wouldn't normally be seen dead in a graveyard expressing a surprising interest in the "other side". And finally, 'One Small Step' takes a giant leap forward to 2010 and the first murder on the moon.

All four tales are told with the panache, ingenuity and wit which has won Reginald Hill his reputation as probably the finest living crime writer in the modern era.

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About the Author: Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill (born 3 April 1936, West Hartlepool, County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

Hill's novels employ various structural devices, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (n e Soper). Clues may also be provided in such a way that readers sail past them, only realising at the end how their own assumptions have been exposed. He also frequently selects one writer or one oeuvre to use as a central organizing element of a given novel, such as one novel being a pastiche of Jane Austen's works, or another featuring elements of classical Greek myth. In a different kind of tease, the novella One Small Step (dedicated to "you, dear readers, without whom the writing would be in vain, and to you, still dearer purchasers, without whom the eating would be infrequent",) is set in the future, and deals with the EuroFed Police Commissioner Pascoe and retired Dalziel investigating the first murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that while Dalziel and Pascoe are unable to convict anyone, a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one unprovable instance of murder.

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