β Scribed by P. D. James
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
On the same day as the St Cedd's church fete in the grounds of her home, Martingale, Mrs Maxie learns of her son Stephen's engagement. By the next morning, her new parlourmaid, Sally Jupp, is dead. Detective Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates murder in the Elizabethan manor house.
The finest English crime novelist of her generation. -- The Globe and Mail
The reigning mistress of murder...Her vivid, compelling whodunits have made James one of the worlds leading crime writers and a worthy successor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. -- Time
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P.D. Jamesis the author of nearly twenty books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britains Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991.
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