The Private Patient

by PDJames (Author)

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  2009

  $4.19

  Queen of crime, PD James delivers another Adam Dalgliesh mystery, The Private Patient . The scar on Rhoda Gradwyn's face was to be the death of her...When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But the Manor holds a secret and deadly enemy. While she lies drowsily recovering from the anaesthetic a white-shrouded figure stealthily enters her bedroom and within minutes Rhoda is dead. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder, and later a second equally horrific death, find themselves confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt. From the author of Death in Holy Orders and Original Sin comes The Private Patient . PD James' hero Adam Dalgliesh returns to investigate. Praise for The Private Patient : Dagliesh is one of the great police detectives in the history of crime fiction . ( The Times ). Plenty of suspense . ( Daily Mail ). P.D. James is the queen of crime fiction and the author of numerous bestsellers including A Taste for Death , Original Sin , A Certain Justice and Death in Holy Orders . She lives in London.

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  Paperback
  2009

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $4.19

  When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt. A chilling and atmospheric work of detective fiction, The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh, from the award-winning author of Children of Men, Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room.

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  2009

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