Reginald Dixon At The Blackpool Tower - Reginald Dixon

Reginald Hill back on form

Advantages: Well-written, strong characters
Disadvantages: A bit too long

Introduction I have to admit that the latest Dalziel and Pascoe books that I've read have not particularly impressed me. I thought 'Arms and the Women' was one of the worst books I have read for a long time and 'Dialogues of the Dead', although better, was so complex that I just gave up trying to understand after a while. So I wasn't really expecting this book to be much better. Luckily, I was surprised and Reginald Hill has come up with a plot much more of a standard with his earlier novels. The author Reginald Hill now lives in Cumbria, although he has spent part of his life in Yorkshire, where the Dalziel and Pascoe books are based. Good Morning, Midnight is the twentieth book featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, who first appeared in 'A Clubbable Woman' in 1970. Hill has also written a series of books featuring Joe Sixsmith, a West ...

sunmeilan 12.12.2005 · Read full review
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Lies at Dixons

Advantages: Not too bad on price, not too bad on range.
Disadvantages: Their shop staff know very little.

Dixons are the big name on the high street. Dixons are the name behind outlets such as PC World, in fact, you?ll struggle to find a shop in a prime location that isn?t owned by them and this is, perhaps, why the Monopolies and Merger Commission has a habit of investigating them. The last time, I think, was because the chain of shops called ?John Lewis? had complained Dixons was in a special agreement that kept prices high and their shops with exclusive selling rights of the most popular machines. For all this, I don?t care that much. As long as a shop can sell me a good, well priced computer and can offer me decent after sales care I doubt I?d even think about what they are doing to the competition. Can Dixons do that? Well, no, not really. Dixons will try its very best to match the price of computers; they will do what they can to ...

Manx 16.11.2000 · Read full review
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Dixons

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: poor after service

DIXONS..Do they really care? I think not. My son recently vistied a dixons store in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to purchase as small item, this was a scart lead to connect his television to his Hi Fi for better sound quality. Excited by finding such a lead in a box which had been opened previously and then marked down from £12.99 to £9.99 he duly paid and made for home. When he was home and went to connect the lead to his apparatus he found that the lead was not the lead as described on the box. The lead did not fit a Hi Fi but was intended for a video output! The next day I had to make a special trip back to Dixons and informed them of their error. This however was not accepted by the young spotty faced lad who served me. He just glared at me as though I was talking complete gobbledy gooch! I now know why. This assistant had NO ...

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