Dalziel and Pascoe

Andy Dalziel & Peter Pascoe
First appearance	A Clubbable Woman
Last appearance	Midnight Fugue
Created by	Reginald Hill
Portrayed by	ITV: Gareth Hale (Dalziel) & Norman Pace (Pascoe) BBC: Warren Clarke (Dalziel) & Colin Buchanan (Pascoe)
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Gender	Male
Occupation	Policemen
Title	Detective Superintendent (Dalziel), Detective Sergeant/Detective Inspector (Pascoe)
Nationality	British

Detective Superintendent Andrew "Andy" Dalziel (pronounced "dee-ell") and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill.

Dalziel is depicted as being rude, insensitive and blunt, whereas Pascoe is calm, polite and well mannered.

Hill's mysteries often break with storytelling tradition. The novels employ various structural tricks, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (née Soper). The novella One Small Step is even set in the future, and deals with the detectives investigating a murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that what Dalziel and Pascoe dismiss as a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one undetected instance of murder.

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