- Fiction, Women private investigators, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
A Cordelia Gray MysteryMeet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- Books On Tape, Scribner Book Company, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780140263817
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An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
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