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Death's Jest-Book

Reginald Hill
2002
576 pages
Fiction, thrillers, crimeFiction, thrillers, suspenseFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralDalziel, andrew (fictitious character), fictionPascoe, peter (fictitious character), fictionEngland, fiction

The dead-pan joker, Franny Roote, is working on his dead friend's unfinished biography of Beddoes, and with unfinished business between himself and DCI Pascoe to deal with as well. Meanwhile, Edgar Wield, is torn between protecting a rent-boy and doing his duty.

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