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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins, London
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780586072585ISBN:0586072586
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No rips or tears in book or bind. No writing. SMOKE FREE. 256p.; 18 cm. A Dalziel and Pascoe novel.. Originally published: 1970. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Foul Play Press, Woodstock, Vermont, USA
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. 1970 Foul Play Press hard cover. NOT EX LIB! Bright, clean pages with some reading wear, light edgewear, spine is slightly tilted. Dust jacket is scuffed with moderate edgewear & wrinkles & small tears along edges. 190 p. Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet, New York
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780451138101ISBN:0451138104
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Creasing to spine. Small piece torn from top corner of back wrap. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Hardcover Book Club Edition
Binding: Fair to Good
Publisher: Foul Play Press / Countryman, Woodstock, VT.
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good in Fair to Poor jacket. Hardcover Fiction Mystery: A book club hardcover mystery involving a murder and the investigation by Dalziel and Pascoe. The binding is somewhat loose and the dj is torn up around the edges, but the book is in very readable condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1985-09-03
ISBN-13:9780451138101ISBN:0451138104
Description: Good. ** Paperback in Good + condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. Edgewear, yellowing to pages. Wrinkling to spine. *** read more
Edition: First American
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780881500325ISBN:0881500321
Description: Book is Very Good except is ex-library, has usual library markings. Dust Jacket is Very Good, label on spine, flaps glued to inside book covers. 8vo. 256 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
Date Published: 9/15/2007
ISBN-13:9781933397931ISBN:1933397934
Description: New. Paperback. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
"First in a very long-running series of mysteries set in a small city in Northern England, featuring the mismatched police officers Dalziel and Pascoe. (I strongly suspect that there's a bit Dalziel and Pascoe in the DNA of Life on Mars's Gene Hunt and Sam Tyler.)
I first encountered Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series when Radio 7 recently serialized one of the later books in the series, Bones and Silence. A Clubbable Woman is the very first of these novels. I think the books get a bit more solid later on - I found the characterization in this one a bit sketchy. However, it had a good twisty plot, with lots of plausible red-herrings, and was a quick easy read. If you're in the mood for a police procedural with a northern English flavor, this fits the bill."
"Very unique British detective series recommended to me by a fellow Good Reader since I was a fan of Peter Robinson. But where Robinson transports us to a romantic rural pastoral setting disrupted with a dash of murder, Hill places us in the fertile working class universe of pubs and macho rugby clubs. There are like 25 books in the series, and as a mystery geek who likes to read things in order, i just ordered the next four. Can't wait for them to arrive. Thanks, Kurt."
"Glad my introduction to the series came rather later in, or I might not have gone on to read more. I liked it, but it wasn't at all remarkable. The later books are."
"British mystery with a twist. Out in the hinterlands with the only writing I have recently encountered with a real effort to give us the Northlands manner of speaking. R. Hill is also talented at conveying smaller city manners, as well as, the nature and practice of the local police force. Definitely a page-turner."
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