Reginald Hill

Exit Lines


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      REGINALD HILL

      EXIT LINES

      A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1984

      Copyright © Reginald Hill 1984

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

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      Source ISBN: 9780586072530

      Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN: 9780007374007

      Version: 2015-06-18

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      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       Chapter 1

      ‘I am just going outside and I may be some time.’

      On a cold and storm-racked November night, while Peter and Ellie Pascoe were still celebrating with wine and wassail the first birthday which their daughter Rose had greeted with huge indifference, three old men, who felt far from indifferent, died.

      Thomas Arthur Parrinder, 71, was aroused for the last time by a warm wetness amid the freezing rain which had been lashing his face for almost four hours. He opened one eye and saw above him, silhouetted vaguely against the dark sky, a long animal head with pricking ears, and he glimpsed also the gleam of tooth and inquisitive eye as the beast stooped down to lick at him once more. His mouth gaped and a rattle that may have been a laugh spilled out with it a single word. ‘Polly!’ No other word passed his lips, and precious little breath either, before an overworked hospital doctor pronounced him (not without some guilty relief) dead on arrival.

      At just about the same time, Robert Deeks, 73, was being hooked back from a long slide to oblivion