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    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    Written by P. D. James

    Narrated by Katie Scarfe

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    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. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateAug 21, 2014
    ISBN9780571319503
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    P. D. James

    P. D. James (1920–2014) was born in Oxford in 1920. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She 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 Honour for Literature. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.

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    • 4/5
      I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this mystery. I read and loved the Dalgleish series many years ago so was happy to find this book by PD James. It’s sad she only wrote one more in this series but I look forward to reading it.
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      There is something distinctly satisfying by a classic whodunit, especially one as well written as this.