Pascoe's Ghost: And Other Brief Chronicles of Crime(Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)

Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger-winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" (The Sunday Telegraph). A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls--as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe--in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself. A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in--and finds some clues that were left behind in the move. These stories--and four more--from the author of the series starring Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder. "One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists." --The Times (London) "Hill is never predictable." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." --The Boston Globe

About the Author :
Reginald Hill was an English crime writer and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He won the 1995 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

Review :
"Reginald Hill is a mystery writer who is also a very good novelist. . . . [He] uses the police procedural format to get at something deeper than the solution of a crime. . . . Hill can capture a moment, an emotion, or a character with the stroke of a few words." --The Washington Post Book World "One of the best of a generation of mystery writers." --Dallas Morning News "Reginald Hill has raised the classical British murder mystery to new heights . . . in the Agatha Christie tradition." --The New York Times Book Review "A lot of people write classic detective stories, but Reginald Hill is one of the elite few who write classy classics." --The Baltimore Sun "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 Dalziel-Pascoe novels are enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated, suspenseful mystery plots." --The Christian Science Monitor "The British author's faultless writing, ironic wit and--above all--recognizably human characters defy limiting his police stories to the mystery category." --Publishers Weekly "Reginald Hill's novels deserve to be read in fine surroundings--perhaps in a leather chair by a crackling fire with a good sherry in your hand and a loyal hound at your feet. Or if that Agatha Christie stage set isn't available, at least read Hill's mysteries in a quiet place where you can savor his acrobatic prose, his sour lemon wit, his intricate puzzle plots." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "The real joy of the Dalziel-Pascoe books is the writing and the characterization. Mr. Hill has such disparate writers as Trollope, Beerbohm, Sayers and Shaw in his blood." --The New York Times