- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Death
"Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 466
- Publisher
- Fayard, Sound Library, Sudamericana
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Italian, German, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780676971682
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“Murderers do not usually give their victims notice.”
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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