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In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ...
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Grave, earnest, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James, T. A. Critchley
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Fayard, Constable, B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B)
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780446679213
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“A little before midnight on the last night of his life Timothy Marr, a linen draper of Ratcliffe Highway, set about tidying up the shop, helped by the shop-boy, James Gowen.”
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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