Dialogues of the Dead
Reginald Hill
New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain’s finest male crime writer: ‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’ Tom Hiney, ObserverA man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents … yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be taking responsibility for the deaths.In Mid-Yorkshire CID these claims are greeted with disbelief. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman.
REGINALD HILL
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD
A Dalziel and Pascoe novel
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Contents
Cover (#ua8468d48-9c7d-5966-bb74-1d9b647d6671)
Title Page (#u6544f443-e6a0-562d-8819-7d658aaeec85)
Copyright
Epigraph (#ud988fcb4-7903-5d82-a393-ae7cb8ab09d5)
Chapter One: the first dialogue
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four: the second dialogue
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine: the third dialogue
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen: the fourth dialogue
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four: the fifth dialogue
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six