An April Shroud

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An April Shroud
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Author Reginald Hill
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Dalziel and Pascoe series, #4
Genre crime novel
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
7 July 1975
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages256p.
ISBN 0-00-231842-3
OCLC 3222728
823/.9/14
LC Class PZ4.H64856 Ap PR6058.I448
Preceded by Ruling Passion  
Followed by A Pinch of Snuff  

An April Shroud is a 1975 crime novel written by Reginald Hill, it is also the fourth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

The novel is mainly about Dalziel, as Peter and Ellie Pascoe marry and go on honeymoon. Taking leave himself, Dalziel stumbles across a case of embezzlement and murder, which he solves with Pascoe's last minute assistance in the closing chapters.

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