Pictures of Perfection

Blurb

Pictures of Perfection is a 1994 crime novel by Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title is a quote from a letter of Jane Austen—"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked." Austen's letters are quoted at the beginning of each chapter, and story itself makes innumerable references to Austen's novels.