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Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' -- Independent In T.L. Beddoes' play Death's Jest-Book, the dead won't lie still in the grave and the living often wish they could. And Reginald Hill's novel is much the same -- except perhaps for a few more jests. The dead-pan joker, Franny Roote, is working on his dead friend's unfinished biography of Beddoes, and with unfinished business between himself and DCI Pascoe to deal with as well. Three times Pascoe has been wrong about Roote. This time he's determined to leave no grave-stone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad and dangerous to know. Meanwhile, Edgar Wield, Quixote-like, rides to the rescue of a child in danger, and finds he's got a rent-boy under his wing. In return, the boy tips him off about the heist of a pricesless treasure, and soon Wieldy's torn between protecting the boy and doing his duty. His superiors might have worries, but DC Hat Bowler's looking forward to a blissful New Year with the girl of his dreams. The trouble is that that girl is Rye Pomona and her dreams are filled with a horror too terrible to tell -- even though Charley Penn throws all his energies into trying to do exactly that. And over all this activity broods the huge form of Mid-Yorkshire CID's First Mover, DS Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds, the Fat Man discovers (as many deities before him) that omniscience can be more trouble than its worth, and that sometimes all omnipotence means is that you can have any colour you like, as long as it's black.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for Reginald Hill's Death's Jest Book
Hardback Editions
September 2003 : USA Hardback
February 2003 : USA Hardback
January 2003 : UK Hardback
May 2002 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
October 2020 : USA Paperback
June 2009 : UK Paperback
August 2004 : USA Mass Market Paperback
January 2004 : Canada Mass Market Paperback
November 2003 : UK Paperback
February 2003 : UK Paperback
May 2002 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
January 2013 : USA Audio edition
August 2007 : UK Audio CD

Title: Death's Jest-Book: Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 20
Author(s): Reginald Hill
ISBN: 1-4074-9302-7 / 978-1-4074-9302-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon UK
January 2007 : UK Audio edition

Title: Death's Jest Book: Dalziel and Pascoe Series, Book 20
Author(s): Reginald Hill
Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK
January 2007 : USA Audio edition

Title: Death's Jest-Book: Dalziel and Pascoe Series, Book 20
Author(s): Reginald Hill
Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
Availability: Amazon
2004 : UK Audio Cassette
Kindle Editions
October 2019 : USA Kindle edition

Title: Death's Jest-Book: A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery
Author(s): Reginald Hill
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Availability: Amazon
July 2015 : UK Kindle edition

Title: Death's Jest-Book (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 18)
Author(s): Reginald Hill
Publisher: HarperCollins
Availability: Amazon UK