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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....
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A Taste for Death, Phyllis Dorothy James
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- A Taste for Death
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Released
- 2011
- ISBN13
- 9780307758989
- Series
- Adam Dalgliesh
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Politics, Relationships, Murders, Detective Fiction, British Literature, Death, England, Great Britain, English Literature, Adapted for Film, London, Family relationships, Church, Suicide, Aristocracy, nobility, Riddles, Scandals and Affairs, Brutality
- First published
- 1986
- Original title
- A Taste for Death
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....