Reginald Hill

Pascoe sends his family away while he searches through his cases to find out who is threatening them while the officer in charge of their safety starts to believe that the man is after Ellie and not Pascoe.

Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door might be his own size (and indomitable willpower). As he lies on a hospital bed, it falls on DCI Peter Pascoe to seek justice for Andy. The security services have written it off as an accident - the terrorist suspects have paid for their clumsiness with their lives. Who, then, are the Knights Templar, a shadowy group exacting summary public justice on their enemies? Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police's most inept officer only convinces him further. But if the plot is complex, the climax will prove astounding.

The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden age - Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesteron, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr (the only American ever to be a member) among others - and membership remains by invitation only. Now to celebrate the impending seventy-fifth anniversary of The Detection Club, its members have produced The Detection Collection - a collection of eleven new stories from the best and the brightest in the British crime field. This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere. The Part-Time Job by P.D. James Partnership Track by Michael Ridpath A Toothbrush by H.R.F. Keating The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by John Harvey 'Going Anywhere Nice? by Lindsey Davis Between the Lines by Colin Dexter The Life-Lie by Robert Barnard The Woman From Marlow by Margaret Yorke Toupee for a Bald Tyre by Robert Goddard The Holiday by Clare Francis Fool of Myself by Reginald Hill The Detection Club: a brief history by Simon Brett

Sir Wilf Hadda is woken one morning by a police raid and to his horror is being investigated as a suspected paedophile. But this is only the start of his troubles and in no state to defend himself is sent down for 15 years. The prison psychiatrist is convinced of his innocence but is concerned he will do something to put him back inside forever.

Since she was in her teens, and had made a tragic mistake that had changed her life, Alex Cameron had left men severely alone and concentrated on her work as a jade carver - which had become the ruling passion of her life. So a man like Richard Lewis, who wanted to turn her back into a real woman, was the last thing she wanted - or was it?

Superintendent Dalziel's curiosity is aroused when a widow seems more concerned with saving the family fortune rather than grieving the loss of her husband, but his interest in the woman is not only professional, and he may have compromised himself beyond redemption.