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When a girl is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from "Hamlet". If Detective-Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is furious when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.

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This is book 6 of 26 in Dalziel and Pascoe. (standard series)

Preceded by A pinch of snuff, and followed by Deadheads.

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  1. Reginald Hill (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon Books
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Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0394519108
Page Count: 269

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