One Small Step

It's the crime of the century-- but not this century. And there are two hundred and twenty-seven million witnesses-- but none of them can help the investigation officers.
For this is the murder on the moon in the year 2010. And when Emile Lemarque keels over on the steps of the space ship Europa, he stirs up more than lunar dusts at his death threatens to turn into an international incident, requiring the personal intervention of Commissioner Peter Pascoe of the Eurofed Justice Department.
Pascoe, at the peak of his career and facing one of his most baffling and delicate cases, turns for assistance to his old mentor, Andy Dalziel, now deep in gouty retirement. Reunited, though with roles reversed, the old Mid-Yorkshire duo probe deep into space, both inner and outer, as they take one small step after another to a series of surprising truth.