An April Shroud
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An April Shroud is a crime
novel
by Reginald Hill
, the fourth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe
series.
The novel is mainly Dalziel's, as Peter and Ellie Pascoe marry and go on honeymoon. Taking leave himself, Dalziel stumbles across a case of embezzlement and murder, which he solves with Pascoe's last minute assistance in the closing chapters.
Crime fiction
Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill
Reginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...
, the fourth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe consist of Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe....
series.
The novel is mainly Dalziel's, as Peter and Ellie Pascoe marry and go on honeymoon. Taking leave himself, Dalziel stumbles across a case of embezzlement and murder, which he solves with Pascoe's last minute assistance in the closing chapters.
Publication history
- 1975, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN 0002318423, Pub date 7 July 1975, Hardback
- 2009, New York: Felony & Mayhem PressFelony & Mayhem PressFelony & Mayhem Press is an American book publisher which specializes in re-issues of out-of-print mystery novels, first paperback editions of books previously published in hardcover, and U.S. editions of books that initially came out overseas...
ISBN 978-1-934609-32-3, Pub date May 2009.