HILL, Reginald - Pascoe`s Ghost and other Brief Chronicles of Crime - (1st Ed. H/cover in Wrap.)

(NO MORE THAN 5 BOOKS PER ORDER OR PARCEL ALLOWED) - 1979 book - Did belong to a library before but book and wrapper still very good - 249 pg. - (These old Collins Crime Club are getting very collectable)   >>>    Whether Inspector Pascoe is snooping about in a storm-racked country churchyard or corpulent Superintendent Dalziel is wandering through the halls of a haunted house, readers will immediately recognize the intriguing territory of crime that is uniquely Reginald Hill country. The setting may be Pascoe and Dalziels Yorkshire, but the landscape of dark motives and clever plots is created by the vagaries born in the human heart lust, greed, envy, and or course, murder. Now, seven outstanding stories provide an irresistible tour of Hills inimitable world of detection as he shows us the contents of a padlocked attic trunk, the chilling truth in a prisoner's diary, and all the twists and turns in the back alleys of the criminal mind.  >>>  A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone callsas well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoein a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.   -   A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself.   -   A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up inand finds some clues that were left behind in the move.   -   These storiesand four morefrom the author of the series starring Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder.