Reginald Hill

An April Shroud


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      REGINALD HILL

      AN APRIL SHROUD

      A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      Harper An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

      Previously published in paperback by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1993 and by Grafton in 1987

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1975

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      Copyright © Reginald Hill 1975

      Reginald Hill asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN 9780586072615

      Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN 9780007370276

      Version 2015-06-18

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

      6 A Step into Summer

      7 A Fried Egg Sandwich

      8 Family History

      9 The Setting of Riddles

      10 The Presentation of Awards

      11 Hello Sailor

      12 A View in the Morning

      13 An Intimate Deodorant

      14 When We Dead Awake

      15 Pictures of Innocence

      16 Dead Ducks

      17 Opening Night

      18 The Last Days of Pompeii

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       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       Epigraph

      … the melancholy fit shall fall

      Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud

      That fosters the droop-headed flowers all

      And hides the green hill in an April shroud

      JOHN KEATS

      De’il and Dalziel begin with ane letter

      The de’il’s nae guid and Dalziel’s nae better.

       Old Galloway Saying

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       Epithalamium

      No one knew how it came about that Dalziel was making a speech. Pascoe had with great reluctance let himself be persuaded into a church wedding, partly by the argument sentimental (Mum’s looking forward to it), partly