Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Home from the Rugby club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever -- by a hole in the middle of her forehead.

Down at the club, passions run high, on and off the field.This is a home game for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel who knows all the players, male and female. But Sergeant Peter Pascoe, whose loyalties lie with another code, has a few ideas of his own.

Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman . A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007313020 (June, 2009), 320 p., £7.99.

Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
We bring back the (long out-of-print) first novel in the phenomenally popular Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series about a pair of mismatched Yorkshire cops. Our addition includes a new introduction by Reginald Hill written especially for the Felony & Mayhem edition.

Reginald Hill published A Clubbable Woman -- his first novel, and the first to feature Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, quirky detectives of the Yorkshire police force -- in 1970. Since then, the series has grown to an astonishing 24 titles, has won numerous prizes in mystery fiction, and has sold millions of copies around the world.

Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60. When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband -- the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss -- comes instantly under suspicion. But Andy Dalziel, the gloriously vulgar savant of the Mid-Yorkshire police force, has some other ideas, and all of them center on the local rugby club -- the town's social center, and Mary Connon's preferred hunting ground.

Peter Pascoe, Dalziel's young detective sergeant, suspects that his new boss's interest in the club has at least as much to do with access to good beer as it does with solving the murder. But while Dalziel never said no to a pint or three, Pascoe has much to learn about Fat Andy's uniquely effective methodology for solving crimes.

Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman . Felony & Mayhem, ISBN 1933397934 (September, 2007), 273 p., $14.95.

Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
Home from the Rugby club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever -- by a hole in the middle of her forehead.

Down at the club, passions run high, on and off the field.This is a home game for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel who knows all the players, male and female. But Sergeant Peter Pascoe, whose loyalties lie with another code, has a few ideas of his own.

Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman . A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN 0586072586 (March, 2004), 313 p., £6.99.