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Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).
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An Unsuitable Job for a Women, Phyllis Dorothy James
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- Released
- 2005
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 220
- ISBN10
- 0571228550
- ISBN13
- 9780571228553
- Series
- Cordelia Gray
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Women, Suspense, British Literature, Murders, Detective Fiction, Series, England, Detective, Great Britain, Employment, Suicide, Private Detective
- First published
- 1972
- Original title
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).