title: The Wood Beyond (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
author:  Reginald Hill 
description: The old trick of splitting a central character into two very different parts and using the tension to create literary sparks has worked for writers as diverse as Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin) and Patrick O'Brian (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin). Nobody in the mystery field does it better these days than Hill, whose down-and-dirty Inspector Dalziel (pronounced Dah-eel in the A&E TV series) jigs and jousts wonderfully with his smart, sensitive sidekick Pascoe. Their latest outing is one of the best in the series, with Pascoe digging up some old bones and family secrets from his own past. (Other <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Hill%2C%20Reginald/${0}">Dalziel/Pascoe</a> books include <b>Blood Sympathy</b>, <b>Exit Lines</b>, <b>Pictures of Perfection</b>, <b>A Pinch of Snuff</b>, <b>Ruling Passion.</b>)
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  REGINALD HILL
  
  
  
  
  
  THE WOOD BEYOND
  
  
  A Dalziel and Pascoe novel
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  AUTHOR'S NOTE
  
  The epigraphs to the four parts of the novel are
  
  
  taken from Andrew Marvell's poem The Nymph complaining for the death of her
  Faun.
  
  
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  After Wield had left the Black Bull, Pascoe and Dalziel had sat in silence for
  a while.
  
  'Another pint, sir,' Pascoe finally ventured.
  
  'Don't think so,' said the Fat Man. 'Enough's enough.'
  
  This was like God resting on the fourth day.
  
  'Can I have that on tape?' said Pascoe.
  
  Dalziel frowned and said, 'You got no work to do?'
  
  Pascoe said, 'I thought I'd go to the hospital. See how Walker is. And I guess
  that's where Ellie will be.'
  
  'Aye. Hope she's not doing owt daft like blaming herself. There's no future in
  it, blaming yourself.'
  
  'No one knows yet there's anything for anyone to blame themselves for,' said
  Pascoe.
  
  'Oh there's always summat, lad. There's always summat, ' said Dalziel. 'Off
  you go, see how she is. Both on