Asking for the Moon: A Collection of Dalziel and Pascoe Stories: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel

A good and different kind of reading

I'm a huge Dalziel & Pascoe fan and have read all the full length books several times. I love the way the characters (and Reginald Hill's writing style) have developed over the years, and even the more minor characters make re-appearances. I'm not normally a fan of short stories, so only decided to read this recently. I have to say it's not a patch on the full length novels, maybe because Hill's complex style doesn't lend itself to a quick telling. I liked his comment in the forward, that it had occurred to him that Dalziel & Pascoe's lives seemed to progress at about half the speed of his, and he wrote the final story in this book so that we would know what happened to them after they retired from Mid Yorks CID. A glimpse into the future.

Wonderful stuff. Dalziel in space - priceless!!

Sent very quickly, item as expected.

Not up to Hill's usual witty and exciting writing. Poor Storyline

prefer whole stories

always good

Good tale

Not everybody's taste - more a collection of short stories

A bit difficult to follow - not very interesting.

returned as defective, last disc was from another recording

The book has four short stories staring Dalziel and Pascoe. Reginald Hill is a very good British writer.

The alpha and omega of the Dalziel and Pascoe stories. This book of 4 short stories has two from a previous collection - Pascoe's Ghost and Dalziel's Ghost, so I was a bit disappointed to have purchased only two new stories; however, they were worth it ! The first story is the initial meeting - in not very good circumstances - of the characters. It was a treat to see how the relationship started. The last story in the book was written by Mr. Hill on the 20th anniversary of the first book in the series. He said he looked at the fact that 20 years had passed, but not for the characters, so he decided to write a story about what might have happened to them if time was passing at the same rate. He wrote the story in 1990 but set it in the then future of 2010. Space travel has not developed as he predicts, but the story of now Eurofed Commissioner Pascoe and retired Dalziel solving a murder on the moon is quite a neat tale. Well worth getting this book for just those two stories. If you have not read the other two in the previous short story collection ( Pascoe's Ghost and other tales ) they are both quite interesting as well.

I'm a huge fan of Reginald Hill's Pascoe and Dalziel stories, but this collection of P&D short stories left me kind of scratching my head about what the author had got up to. There are two stories--in this collection of four--that are classic Pascoe and Dalziel. In "Pascoe's Ghost" you get a zig-zag murder mystery with an homage by author Hill to Edgar Allan Poe. "Dalziel's Ghost" is a net full of red herrings that showcases the big man's mental agility and deviousness and his fondness for playing with partner Pascoe's mind.The book's first story, "The Last National Service Man," is a comic masterpiece, and chronolgically, is early in the P&D partnership."One Small Step," the collection's closing story, projects the pair into the distant future. Pascoe has become a major police authority in the European Federal Police and Dalziel is working as a retired consultant. The big surprise here is that they are called to a crime scene on the surface of the moon. Picture the rhino-sized Dalziel in a space suit! There is some over-the-top humor laced into this story--Dalziel brings new meaning to the "mile-high club." But on the whole, I thought the story had a little too much fantasy and zig-zag to be credible.There's a lot of fun in this collection and it serves as a good intro to Pascoe and Dalziel for those who haven't given them an earlier try.

I am saving this one. Five years from now I will read it again. That means something when you are talking books of this gender.

I always enjoy Dalziel and Pascoe. Nice little group of stories. A pleasant read.