Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
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Weight: 243g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 05 Dec 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571355709
About P. D. James
P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962) An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) Innocent Blood (1980) Children of Men (1992) and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain America Italy and Scandinavia including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors and stood down from this role in 2013.