One Small Step (novella)

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One Small Step
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First edition cover
Author Reginald Hill
LanguageEnglish
Series Dalziel and Pascoe series #12
Genre Crime novella
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1 September 1990
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages109 pp.
ISBN 0002322927
OCLC 21520047
Preceded by Bones and Silence  
Followed by Recalled to Life  

One Small Step is a 1990 novella written by British writer Reginald Hill featuring the detective characters Dalziel and Pascoe. It is set in 2010, many years after the other Dalziel and Pascoe stories, and involves the detectives investigating the first murder on the Moon.

Contents

One Small Step was originally published separately in 1990. In 1996, it was included, along with three other Dalziel and Pascoe stories, in the collection Asking for the Moon . [1]

Summary

In May 2010, Emile Lemarque, a French astronaut, is killed by a short circuit in his urine collection device at the moment he steps onto the surface of the Moon. Retired Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel and his former colleague Peter Pascoe, now the UK Commissioner in the Eurofed Department of Justice, fly to the Moon to investigate Lemarque's death as a murder.

Reception

Reviewing the American edition of Asking for the Moon in 1996, Publishers Weekly called One Small Step "an almost absurd swansong for the mismatched twosome". [2] Reviewing Asking for the Moon for Booklist , Emily Melton called One Small Step "an intriguing but somewhat hokey piece of futuristic folderol". [3] Crime novelist and critic Martin Edwards described One Small Step as "a slight disappointment". [4]

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