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Deadly pleasures : three masterly detective novels  Cover Image Book Book

Deadly pleasures : three masterly detective novels / by P.D. James.

James, P. D., (author.). James, P. D. Container of (work) Black tower. (Added Author). James, P. D. Container of (work) Death of an expert witness. (Added Author). James, P. D. Container of (work) Skull beneath the skin. (Added Author).

Summary:

The black tower: Set on the black-shale cliffs of Dorset, location of the murder of Adam Dalgleish's godfather, a chaplain, precipitates a series of sinister events, and Dalgliesh must find the hidden pattern behind the tragedy to stop a nightmare of death.
Death of an expert witness: Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a forensic pathologist at a laboratory in a small village in East Anglia, against the backdrop of the desolate fens stretching out to the dark North Sea.
The skull beneat the skin: Cordelia Gray embarks on a mysterious mission to an island castle off the south coast of England, where backstage intrigue among members of an acting troup escalates into murder.

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  • Physical Description: 981 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Book-of-Month Club, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Author's foreward -- The black tower -- Death of an expert witness -- The skull beneath the skin.
Subject: Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Gray, Cordelia (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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