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A Pinch of Snuff (Paperback)

by Reginald Hill (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 287 pages
Publisher: Grafton; 1st thus edition
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0586072500
ISBN-13: 978-0586072509
Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 200 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #279,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club - once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity.

But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered.

Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from the professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target.

About the Author

Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his outstanding crime novels featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, `the best detective duo on the scene bar none` Daily Telegraph. His writing career began with the publication of A Clubbable Woman(1970), which introduced Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DS Peter Pascoe. Their subsequent appearances (On Beulah Height is the sixteenth in the series), together with the adventures of Luton lathe operator turned PI Joe Sixsmith, have confirmed Hill`s strong claim as `our finest living male crime writer` Sunday Telegraph and won him numerous awards, including the Crime Writers` Association Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to the genre.

The Dalziel and Pascoe novels have now been adapted into a successful BBC television series

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hill begins to hit his stride with Dalziel and Pascoe, Jan 26 2003

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This review is from: A Pinch of Snuff (Mass Market Paperback)

Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe's dentist, who is used to seeing broken jaws and broken teeth, tells Pascoe that a scene in an X-rated film where a women is beaten is real, not staged. This leads Peter and his wife Ellie to check out the Calliope Kinema Club, a trendy venue for soft-core porn in an otherwise proper and well-to-do neighborhood.
Sergeant Wield already has the place under surveillance, due to neighborhood complaints and scandalized locals, but Wield and Pascoe's Boss Superintendant Dalziel is skeptical that anyone is guilty of anything more than voyeurism until an indisputable murder turns up the heat.
The books are labeled the Dalziel and Pascoe books, but I always think of them as the Peter Pascoe / Ellie Pascoe / Edgar Wield / Andy Dalziel books, and all four characters get to shine in this one. Not as innovative as most of the later books in the series, but still an excellent police procedural, and well as showing much of the sly humor and characterization that makes Hill's books such a delight.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A solid, satisfying Dalziel/Pasco adventure, Jul 16 1999

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This review is from: A Pinch of Snuff (Mass Market Paperback)

My copy of A Pinch of Snuff is a 21st printing; this book must be really popular. Reginald Hill's long-running Dalziel/Pasco series never fails to deliver a fine story. Detective Inspector Dalziel allows Detective Sergeant Peter Pasco to look into a report that the beating of an actress in a porn film appears to have been the real thing. Another case's investigation begins to overlap this one, and through step-by-step detective work, the story unfolds.

I enjoyed the story; it's hard to find a better British police procedural than those of Reginald Hill. I don't normally like or read British police procedurals, but Hill's in a class by himself. Read this one and whatever you do, don't miss his later books in this series. On Beulah Height, for instance, is a true masterpiece.

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