Dalziel and Pascoe series

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Paperback editions, starting 1987

About the books

Dalziel and Pascoe series

Publication details △

Author
Reginald Hill, England

First publication
1970–2009

Form
Twenty-three novels, one novella and story collection

Genre
Crime, mystery, detective

Writing language
English

Works in series △

• A Clubbable Woman (1970)

• An Advancement of Learning (1971)

• Ruling Passion (1973)

• An April Shroud (1975)

(re-titled "An Autumn Shroud")

• A Pinch of Snuff (1978)

• A Killing Kindness (1980)

• Deadheads (1983)

• Exit Lines (1984)

• Child's Play (1987)

• Under World (1988)

• Bones and Silence(1990)

• One Small Step (story and novella collection, 1990)

• Recalled to Life (1992)

• Pictures of Perfection (1994)

• The Wood Beyond (1995)

• Asking for the Moon (short stories) 1996)

• On Beulah Height (1998)

• Arms and the Women (1999)

• Dialogues of the Dead (2002)

• Death's Jest-Book (2003)

• Good Morning, Midnight (2004)

• The Death of Dalziel (2007)

• A Cure for All Diseases (2008)

• Midnight Fugue (2009)

Greatest lists △

• Crime and Mystery Series

Notable lines

"He's all right. You'll live forever, won't you, Connie?" said Martin Felstead.

— First lines, A Clubbable Woman

"The buggers have got feeling after all, boy," he said.

— Last line, A Clubbable Woman

If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.

— An Advancement of Learning

Dalziel's precise words were, "Them wankers couldn't spot a bishop in a brothel. You get more sense from a pissed parrot."

— Under World

Raging, Peter looked upwards and cried, "Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!"

And did not know if he was addressing Chung, or God, or Dalziel, or merely himself.

— Last lines, Bones and Silence

The day they drowned Dendale I were seven years old.

— First line, On Beulah Height

Then she brought her knee up as hard as she could between his legs.

— Last line, On Beulah Height

"Don't want them blowflies from the media around till we know there's dead meat and it's not us."

— Dialogues of the Dead

But Dalziel, when he went it would be like losing a mountain. Every time you saw the space where it had been, you'd be reminded nothing was forever, that even the very majesty of nature was only smoke and mirrors.

— Death Comes For The Fat Man

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