Reginald Hill

Arms and the Women


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      REGINALD HILL

      ARMS AND THE WOMEN

      A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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       Copyright

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

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

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      Copyright © Reginald Hill 2000

      Extract from ‘Marina’ from the Collected Poems 1909–62 by T.S. Eliot (published by Faber and Faber Ltd) Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd

      Lines from ‘Girls’ by Stevie Smith from The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (Penguin) © James McGibbon 1975

      Extracts from The Englishman’s Flora by Geoffrey Grigson (Phoenix House 1987)

      Extract from A Celtic Miscellany by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (Penguin 1971)

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

      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.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007313181

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2015 ISBN: 9780007378548

      Version: 2015-06-18

       Dedication

      This one’s for

      those Six Proud Walkers

      in whose company the sun always shines bright

      Emmelien

      Jane

      Liz

      Margaret

      Mary

      Teresa

      who most Fridays of the year…on distant hills

       Gliding apace, with shadows in their train,

       Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed

      Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly…

      and, of course, laughing and talking and eating

      almond slices,

      with fondest greetings from

      one of the trailing shadows!

       Epigraph

      What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

      SIR THOMAS BROWNE: Urn Burial

      With my own eyes I’ve seen the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a pot, and when the young lads asked her, what do you want for yourself, Sibyl? she replied, I want to die.

      PETRONIUS: The Satyricon

      Girls! although I am a woman

      I always try to appear human

      STEVIE SMITH: Girls!

      Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       vi citizen’s arrest

       vii a pint of guinness

       viii spelt from Sibyl’s leaves

       ix bag lady on a bike

       xi a game of hearts

       xii doppelgänger

       xiii the death of Marat

       xiv a man’s best friend

       xv spelt from Sibyl’s leaves

       xvi