- Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Country life, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Fayard, Hamilton, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783426306727
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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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