- Fiction, Ficción, Novela de misterio, Police
Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer—but no murder he ever invented was more grisly than his own death. When his corpse is found in a drifting dinghy with both hands chopped off at the wrists, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre circle of friends. Now it’s up to brilliant Scotland Yard inspector, Adam Dalgliesh, and his extraordinary aunt to uncover the shocking truth behind the writer’s death sentence, before the plot takes another murderous turn.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Astran, Hamilton, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9781439144459
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“The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast.”
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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