- Fiction, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- G.K. Hall, Random House Audio, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9782253041139
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- Fiction
- Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character)
- Women private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- Mystery
- Large type books
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Private investigators, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Gray, cordelia (fictitious character), fiction
- London (england), fiction
“THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT; the new nameplate was crooked.”
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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