''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a 2004
crime novel by British crime writer
Reginald Hill
Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 193612 January 2012) was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.
Biography
Hill was born to a "very ordinary" family ...
, and part of the
Dalziel and Pascoe
Detective Superintendent Andrew "Andy" Dalziel and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill.
Characterisation and style
Dalziel is ...
series. The title takes its name from ''Good Morning -- Midnight'', a poem by
Emily Dickinson
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Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the
TV series is Episode 37, ''Houdini's Ghost'' (2006).
Plot summary
The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local businessman Palinurus 'Pal' Maciver, who has killed himself in similar circumstances to those of his father, who shot himself ten years earlier. However, what begins as a routine case of an apparent copycat suicide soon develops into something of a more sinister nature, revealing family secrets, corporate chicanery involving the
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*Small arms trade
*Illegal arms trade (arms trafficking)
See also
*Arms Trade Treaty
*Arms control
*Nuclear proliferation
* Chemical weapon proliferation
*Arms race ...
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government agents
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and
Iraq
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2004 British novels
Novels by Reginald Hill
HarperCollins books
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