Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Series #1)

by P. D. James

Overview

The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.”

Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is.

Cover Her Face is P.D. James’ delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743219570
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	05/08/2001
Series:	Adam Dalgliesh Series , #1
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	19,024
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

P.D. James is the author of twenty previous books, most of which have been filmed and broadcast on television in the United States and other countries. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Departments of Great Britain's Home Office. She has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC. In 2000 she celebrated her eightieth birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. The recipient of many prizes and honors, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 and was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2008. She lives in London and Oxford.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

August 3, 1920

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

Attended the Cambridge High School for Girls from 1931 to 1937 and later took evening classes in hospital administration

Editorial Reviews

A classic story of English rural murder.

The Times (UK)

"The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime."

The Sunday Times (London)

One of the most chilling crime writers around.

Observer

One of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession.

The Washington Post