A Clubbable Woman - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586072586 ISBN 13: 9780586072585

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1987

Synopsis

Home from Rugby Club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than ususal. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever - by a hole in the middle of her forehead.

Down at the club, passions run high, on and off the field. This is a home game for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel who knows all the players, male and female. But Sergent Peter Pascoe whose loyalties lie with another code has a few ideas of his own.

This is the first appearance together on any field for Dalziel and Pascoe, and already we can feel that electricity of opposite but complimentary skills which will take them into the topmost division.

About this title

From the Publisher:

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above the other writer of homebred crime fiction' - Observer

'Hill... is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontanrous storytelling gift' - Francis Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

'So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder' Mike Ripley, Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

Reginald Hill was born in Co. Durham and brought up in Cumberland where he now lives quietly with his wife, Pat, and not so quietly with their labrador bitch and two Siamese cats. A full-time writer since 1980, he has written over forty books and won prizes for individual novels (including the Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year for Bones and Silence) and for short stories. In 1995 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to crime-writing. He spent many years as a teacher in Yorkshire which provided the inspiration and setting for the novels featuring the Falstaffian figure of Andy Dalziel, Head of Mid-Yorkshire CID, and his more sensitive sidekick, Peter Pascoe, whose adventures in the detective trade have been the basis of one of the most satisfying novel sequences of the modem age. Their popularity has been carried over into the hugely successful BBC television series featuring Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan. The same qualities of style, pace, characterization and humour are evident in the books featuring his other series character, Joe Sixsmith, the likeable redundant lathe operator turned PI from Luton. Hill says he was delighted to win the Diamond Dagger because it finally confirmed he had made the right career choice and now he can really get down to it.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0586072586
• ISBN 13: 9780586072585
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256