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Special Tribute

Reginald Hill, the prolific British author best known for his 24 idiosyncratic but elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, died on Thursday at his home in Cumbria, England. He was 75. – http://goo.gl/kpEMh