Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe consist of Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe. ( pronunciation (help·info)). They are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill.

The novels

• A Clubbable Woman (1970)
• An Advancement of Learning (1971)
• Ruling Passion (1973)
• An April Shroud (1975)
• A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
• A Killing Kindness (1980)
• Deadheads (1983)
• Exit Lines (1984)
• Child's Play (1987)
• Under World (1988)
• Bones and Silence (1990)
• One Small Step (1990), novella
• Recalled to Life (1992)
• Pictures of Perfection (1994)
• The Wood Beyond (1995)
• Asking for the Moon (1996), short stories
• On Beulah Height (1998)
• Arms and the Women (1999)
• Dialogues of the Dead (2002)
• Death's Jest-Book (2003)
• Good Morning Midnight (2004)
• The Death of Dalziel (2007)
• A Cure for All Diseases (2008)
• Midnight Fugue (2009)

One Small Step is included in Asking for the Moon.

Hill's mysteries often break with storytelling tradition. The novels employ various structural tricks, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (née Soper). The novella One Small Step is even set in the future and deals with the detectives investigating a murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that what Dalziel and Pascoe dismiss as a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one undetected instance of murder.

TV series

Main article: Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)

• The novel A Pinch Of Snuff was filmed for a three-part 1993 ITV serial starring the comedy duo Gareth Hale as Dalziel and Norman Pace as Pascoe. Christopher Fairbank was cast as DS Wield. Reginald Hill was not happy with the adaptation, and it remained a one-off.

• A more successful series of adaptations began on the BBC in March 1996 with an adaptation of the first novel A Clubbable Woman. Produced by BBC Birmingham, it starred Warren Clarke as Dalziel, Colin Buchanan as Pascoe, David Royle as DS Edgar Wield ("Wieldy") and Susannah Corbett as Ellie Pascoe. Later series introduced Jo-Anne Stockham as DC Shirley Novello, Keeley Forsyth as DC Carrie Harris, Katy Cavanagh as DS Dawn Milligan and Jennifer James as DC Kim Spicer, the latter characters swiftly nicknamed "Ivor", "Bomber", "Spike" and "Posh" by Dalziel. 12 seasons of the show have been produced. The show has won much critical acclaim from newspapers such as The Daily Express and The Sunday Times. The TV and novel continuities are separate, so both Ellie and Wield still appear in the most recent books despite having been written out of the TV series.

External links

• Dalziel and Pascoe at the Internet Movie Database