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P. D. James's Cordelia Gray Mysteries
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin
Part of Cordelia Gray Mystery
By P.D. James
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About The Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Adam Dalgliesh series comes a compelling collection that includes An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin, featuring Private Investigator Cordelia Gray.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).
In The Skull Beneath the Skin, Detective Cordelia Gray is asked to protect an actress within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle—but instead finds the stage is set for death.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).
In The Skull Beneath the Skin, Detective Cordelia Gray is asked to protect an actress within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle—but instead finds the stage is set for death.
About The Author
Photograph by Ulla Montan
P. D. James (1920–2014) was born in Oxford in 1920. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honour for Literature. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.
Product Details
- Publisher: Scribner (February 23, 2015)
- Length: 704 pages
- ISBN13: 9781501117565
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