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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh)

Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh)

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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    Paperback 2002

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    Hardcover 2001

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

Death in Holy Orders is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast. When the body of one of the students is found on the shore, smothered by a fall of sand, his wealthy and influential father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Dalgliesh stayed at St Anselm's as a boy and, as he is due for a holiday, agrees to pay a visit. As the weekend brings another murder, Dalgliesh soon finds himself embroiled in one of the most horrific and puzzling cases of his career...Death in Holy Orders is vintage P.D. James with sensitive evocation of place, a complex and credible mystery, respect for forensic detail and the tension of a plot that never flags.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: 1st Trade Paperback
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 08 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0571209696
ISBN 13: 9780571209699
Prizes: Shortlisted for WH Smith Literary Prize 2002.

Media Reviews
'A thoroughly satisfactory, gripping and exceptionally well written novel.' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'P.D. James is a mistress of atmosphere...It is a long time since I submerged myself in a book with such blissful enjoyment.' Susan Hill, Country Life
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 Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). 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 daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.