- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Dell Publishing Company; 5th THUS edition (Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440215730
- ISBN-13: 978-0440215738
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 2.8 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,291,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’ Donna Leon, Sunday Times
‘The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight’ Val McDermid, Sunday Express
‘An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent
‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining’ Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday
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It was a crime of passion in onc of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case. But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel retums to the scene of the crime with Inspector Pascoe, determined to dig up the corpus delecti he investigated a generation before. Did the wrong aristocrat hang? Dalziel and Pascoe find decades-old clues that implicate a member of the royal family. When one of their prime leads is found dead, Dalziel is put "on leave"--and heads for New York to learn what the Nanny knows. Back home, Pascoe walks a thin line, quietly pursuing a case someone is trying to bury. Stiff upper lips do tell tale, but Dalziel and Pascoe discover on both sides of the Atlantic that it's hell on those trying to unearth the truth.
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It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crime; it was born of love, it was spawned by greed; it was completely unplanned, it was coldly premeditated; it was an open-and-shut case, it was a locked-room mystery; it was the act of a guile-less girl, it was the work of a scheming scoundrel; it was the end of an era, it was the start of an era; a man with the face of a laughing boy reigned in Washington, a man with the features of a lugubrious hound ruled in Westminster; an ex-marine got a job at a Dallas book repository, an ex-Minister of War lost a job in politics; a group known as the Beatles made their first million, a group known as the Great Train Robbers made their first two million; it was the time when those who had fought to save the world began to surrender it to those they had fought to save it for; Dixon of Dock Green was giving way to Z-Cars, Bond to Smiley, the Monsignors to the Maharishis, Matt Dillon to Bob Dylan, l.s.d. to LSD, as the sunset glow of the old Golden Age imploded into the Read the first page
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It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crime; it was born of love, it was spawned by greed; it was completely unplanned, it was coldly premeditated; it was an open-and-shut case, it was a locked-room mystery; it was the act of a guile-less girl, it was the work of a scheming scoundrel; it was the end of an era, it was the start of an era; a man with the face of a laughing boy reigned in Washington, a man with the features of a lugubrious hound ruled in Westminster; an ex-marine got a job at a Dallas book repository, an ex-Minister of War lost a job in politics; a group known as the Beatles made their first million, a group known as the Great Train Robbers made their first two million; it was the time when those who had fought to save the world began to surrender it to those they had fought to save it for; Dixon of Dock Green was giving way to Z-Cars, Bond to Smiley, the Monsignors to the Maharishis, Matt Dillon to Bob Dylan, l.s.d. to LSD, as the sunset glow of the old Golden Age imploded into the Read the first page
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A prisoner resurfaces...,
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This review is from: Recalled to Life (Dalziel and Pascoe) (Paperback)
RECALLED TO LIFE takes its title from Charles Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES, where the phrase refers to the liberation of the long-imprisoned Dr. Manette. As is so often the case with Hill, literary allusions are important clues--and so it is here, for the plot introduces us to long-imprisoned Cissy Kohler and the question of her guilt. Hill here invokes all manner of I-Spy mayhem, introducing a character who will pop up again in ARMS AND THE WOMEN. His treatment of these subjects is gleeful, albeit occasionally convoluted. The novel's highlight is Dalziel's hilarious trip to the United States--which, granted, may be more amusing to Americans, who will be able to recognize the New York delicatessen he visits (yes, it's a real one), as well as the living museum at Colonial Williamsburg. A sharp-witted black female CIA agent is the most interesting supporting character. Those who saw the dismaying television adaptation of this particular novel can rest assured that they know nothing about its plot.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Recalled to Life (Dalziel and Pascoe) (Paperback)
this book was also very good ,along the lines of all dalziel and pascoe books if you enjoyed any other books in this title you will like this book also
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Messy plot lines spoil this book,
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Recalled to Life (Dalziel and Pascoe) (Paperback)
There are several time lines running throughout this book and lots of narrative voices. Add to that the movement between continents and in places this book gets bogged down with confusing detail. Dalziel's character is delightfully wrong headed as ever and it is interesting to learn more about his past, but I thought that this was a clumsy device with which to execute it.
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