Deadheads /
Reginald Hill; retold by Rosalie Kerr.
- Simplified ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- viii, 120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Oxford Bookworms Library 6 Crime & Mystery, stage 6. .
Original ed., 1983.
Includes Glossary and reading activities.
Story introduction People in this story Part 1: Death in a rose garden Part 2 1. "I think someone is killing people" 2. Daphne Aldermann makes a new friend 3. The most important thing in life 4. Another death at Elgood Ceramics 5. "Forget I ever came to see you" 6. Shaheed Singh Investigates 7. How Daphne's father died 8. Daphne's secret 9. Is Patric Aldermann a thief? 10. Dalziel meets Penny Highsmith 11. Who was Daphne meeting? 12. End of an affair 13. Past deaths and a future burglary 14. Daphne gets angry 15. Pascoe goes visiting 16. More about Dick Elgood's love affairs 17. Dalziel has a wonderful time 18. Everything is explained - or is it? 19. Dick Elgood gives a party 20. Shaheed Singh sees some action 21. "Nothing ever really changes" Glossary Activities: Before Reading Activities: While Reading Activities: After Reading About the Author About the Bookworms Library
"An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure..." (Book Cover)
High intermediate to advanced students - B2/C1 (CEFR)
9780194792578 (pbk) 0194792579 (pbk)
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Dalziel, Andrew (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Pascoe, Peter (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Graded Readers. Rose culture--Fiction. Police--Fiction.