Talk:Dalziel and Pascoe

A fact from Dalziel and Pascoe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 February 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe?

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"departure from the norm"[edit]

The comments about "departure from the norm" displays the writers lack of knowledge of the detective novel. Narrative experiments, settings borrowed from adventure stories, as well as detectives not getting their man, are all much-used tricks of the trade. One of the first really modern detective stories, E.C. Bentley's 'Trent's Last Case', was based on the concept of the supposed ingenious detective missing the central points of the case. Even Sherlock Holmes missed a few times. Dorothy L. Sayers, as well as Dashiell Hammett, stage their stories in settings borrowed from other genres. Narrative techniques borrowed from, as well as mocking, 18th Century novels, modernist novels, classic drama etc are used, as well as mixing different narrative levels, with stories-within-stories, quoted manuscripts, fictional reports, letters etc alternating with supposed realistic narratives. There's several detective stories composed of different narratives organized in none-cronological order. There's even detective stories narrated backwards.

Pronunciation[edit]

The ogg file only has Pascoe in it, when Dalziel has the less obvious pronunciation (de-el). 87.194.105.247 (talk) 12:41, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

TV series[edit]

Why does clicking on the actor David Royle's name go to a page about a town called Fallowfield? PortfolioMind (talk) 22:29, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

De-linked him - must be a WP anomaly. Acabashi (talk) 17:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A David Royle is a Labour councillor for Fallowfield ward on Manchester City Council. This is presumably why David Royle redirects to Fallowfield, though I imagine the actor David Royle (Wieldy) is considerably more notable though perhaps not considered notable enough for an article. David Royle should perhaps be disambiguated nonetheless, so I'll leave a message at Talk:David Royle too. Alex McKee (talk) 19:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick update on this - after leaving a note for discussion at Talk:David Royle for a while there was no reply so I have now altered David Royle to be a disambiguation page. David Royle (actor) is currently a redlink though. Alex McKee (talk) 19:32, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Radio series[edit]

While there's a focus on the television programmes, there's no mention of the successful adaptations broadcast by BBC Radio Four. If it doesn't warrant a separate page, mention should be made of them, even if there's no exhaustive list of them all. Jatrius (talk) 01:04, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]