REGINALD HILL
RULING PASSION
A Dalziel and Pascoe novel
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
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and by Grafton in 1987
First published in Great Britain by
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Copyright © Reginald Hill 1973
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For Pat again – with love and thanks
Search then the ruling passion: there, alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool consistent, and the false sincere;
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
This clue once found unravels all the rest …
ALEXANDER POPE
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