Reginald Hill – Arms and the Women (страница 1)
REGINALD HILL
ARMS AND THE WOMEN
A Dalziel and Pascoe novel
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
Copyright © Reginald Hill 2000
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Source ISBN: 9780007313181
Ebook Edition © JULY 2015 ISBN: 9780007378548
Version: 2015-06-18
This one’s for
those Six Proud Walkers
in whose company the sun always shines bright
Emmelien
Jane
Liz
Margaret
Mary
who most Fridays of the year…
and, of course, laughing and talking and eating
almond slices,
with fondest greetings from
one of the trailing shadows!
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE:
With my own eyes I’ve seen the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a pot, and when the young lads asked her,
PETRONIUS:
Girls! although I am a woman
I always try to appear human
STEVIE SMITH:
Contents
ii who’s that knocking at my door?