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Upcoming screening for this powerful novel in the third major BBC drama series featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, the best detective duo in British crime writing.

When Geraldine Lomas dies, her huge fortune is left to an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. But at her funeral a middle-aged man steps forward, claiming to be her long-lost son and rightful heir.

He is later found shot dead in the police car park, leaving behind a multitude of suspects. And Superintendent Dalziel and Peter Pascoe find themselves plunged into an investigation that makes most of their previous cases look like child’s play…

  • ISBN10 0006511724
  • ISBN13 9780006511724
  • Publish Date 16 March 1998 (first published 1 January 1987)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 October 2004
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins