James, P. D.

The private patient / P.D. James. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. - ix, 352 p. ; 25 cm.

"An Adam Dalgliesh mystery"--Dust jacket. Previously published: Great Britain : Faber and Faber.

Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty seven year old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discove rs a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on lifearound Cheverell Manor.

9780307270771 (trade) 0307270777

2008027137


Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police --England--Dorset--Fiction.
WOmen journalists--Fiction.
Women journalists--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Victims of crimes--Fiction.


Dorset (England)--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.

PR6060.A467 / P75 2008

823/.914 [Fic]