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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern Classics (Cordelia Gray Mystery)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern Classics (Cordelia Gray Mystery)

by P. D. James (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

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. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family and soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister. PD James is the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room. Her first Cordelia Gray novel An Unsuitable Job For a Woman is a brilliant work of crime fiction packed with secrets and suspense. This novel has been adapted for television twice, the second adaptation in 1997 starred Helen Baxendale as Cordelia Gray.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main - Faber Modern Classics
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Jun 2015
ISBN 10: 0571323162
ISBN 13: 9780571323166
Book Overview: Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics and set in Cambridge, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the first of P.D. James's novels to feature Cordelia Gray, a compulsive thriller and a chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder.

Author Bio
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.