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{{short description|1978 novel by Reginald Hill}}
{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = A Pinch of Snuff
| image         = File:A Pinch of Snuff (novel) 1st edition cover art.jpg
| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[Reginald Hill]]
| illustrator   =
| cover_artist  =
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = [[Dalziel and Pascoe]] series, #5
| genre         = [[Crime fiction|crime novel]]
| publisher     = [[Collins Crime Club]]
| pub_date      = February 1978
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]])
| pages         = 264p.
| isbn          = 0-00-231643-9
| dewey         = 823/.9/14
| congress      = PZ4.H64856 Pi PR6058.I448
| oclc          = 4482825
| preceded_by   = [[An April Shroud]]
| followed_by   = [[A Killing Kindness]]
}}
'''''A Pinch of Snuff''''' is a 1978 [[Crime fiction|crime]] novel by [[Reginald Hill]], the fifth novel in the [[Dalziel and Pascoe]] series.
==Plot summary==
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, Inspector Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe starts investigating, he soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that his and Shorter's concerns are unnecessary. Meanwhile, the "Calli" has been vandalised and its proprietor Gilbert Haggard has been assaulted so badly that he succumbs to a heart attack. The only existing copy of "Droit de Seigneur" - the film Jack Shorter was so worried about - has been destroyed, and when 13-year-old Sandra Burkill accuses the dentist of being the father of her (yet unborn) child, it begins to look as though Shorter had merely tried to avert suspicions by his claims against the "Calli".
==Publication history==
*February 1978, London: Collins Crime Club {{ISBN|0-00-231643-9}}, hardback
==Television adaptation==
The novel was [[A Pinch of Snuff (TV series)|adapted for television]] in 1994, starring [[Gareth Hale]] as Dalziel and [[Norman Pace]] as Pascoe. It was shown on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV network]] in three parts over consecutive Saturdays, beginning on 9 April. However, Reginald Hill is said to have been unhappy with the series, and the series remains the only Hill adaptation to star Hale and Pace in the leading roles.{{citation needed|date=October 2008}} The ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' novels were later picked up by the [[BBC]], where they enjoyed greater success. Between 1996 and 2007, 11 series of ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)|Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' starring [[Warren Clarke]] and [[Colin Buchanan (actor)|Colin Buchanan]] were made.
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0292186}}
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[[Category:1978 British novels]]
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