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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

Synopsis

Bernie Pryde's death was certainly suicide and it left Cordelia Gray as sole proprietress of Bernie's private detective agency. It left her too, with an assignment originally intended for Bernie - to investigate the death of Cambridge student Mark Callender, found hanged in his room.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0571204503
ISBN 13: 9780571204502

Media Reviews
P.D. James is unbeatable. -- Ottawa Citizen P.D. James is an addictive writer, [with] a quality of intelligence, a genuine curiosity about character, and an ability to describe the density of little known lives. --Anita Brookner One of the most compulsive and acutely observed thrillers of the year--a why-dunnit, rather than a who-dunnit; a study of the complex motives that make up the cold mind of a killer. -- Daily Express James is assuredly the most gifted crime novelist writing in English today, -- The Toronto Star A top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way. -- The New York Times
Author Bio
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors.She lives in London and Oxford and has two daug