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From Amazon.com: Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 540
- Publisher
- Books On Tape, Vintage, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- German, Portuguese, Dutch, French
- ISBN
- 9789500711470
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“For a temporary shorthand typist to be present at the discovery of a corpse on the first day of a new assignment, if not unique, is sufficiently rare to prevent its being regarded as an occupational hazard.”
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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