Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger-winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" (The Sunday Telegraph).   A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls--as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe--in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.   A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself.   A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in--and finds some clues that were left behind in the move.   These stories--and four more--from the author of the series starring Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder.   "One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists." --The Times (London)   "Hill is never predictable." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   "Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." --The Boston Globe