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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern Classics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern Classics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) P. D. James
By (author) P. D. James
SeriesCordelia Gray Mystery
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780571323166
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Main - Faber Modern Classics

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 4 June 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.