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Rent A Pinch of Snuff
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: Jul 1990
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 336
Synopsis
Splitting a main character into two parts that compliment and confound each other has worked well for mystery writers from Conan Doyle to Rex Stout (and for non-mystery writers such as Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey/Maturin sea stories). Reginald Hill's unique contributions to this form are his books about two policemen in an unnamed city in Northern England, Detectives Dalziel (pronounced 'Dee-al' in the TV version) and Pascoe. Both get to show off their strengths and shortcomings in this wonderfully macabre second book in the series; Dalziel's brawn and instinct meets Pascoe's intellect as the two investigate pornographic 'snuff' films in which the actors really wind up dead.
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