There was the fastidious prose, beautifully accurate and not without complex plots Add to these qualities a gift for forward-looking storytelling and, above all, the creation of a detective you like and want to go on liking in Adam Dalgliesh, policeman and plausible poet' (Keating, 40). She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series. Already present in that first attempt were many of the hallmarks of her subsequent writing. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. Its immediate success, however-snapped up at once by the prestigious British publishers Faber and Faber, and well reviewed on publication-caused her to try her hand again at the detective story, putting even more of the novels concern with the workings of the human mind, and indeed of the soul, into its pages. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective. 'Cover Her Face was, James has said, written simply to try out her powers in fiction as a preliminary to attempting the novel proper. Buy a cheap copy of Cover Her Face book by P.D. A superior example with a nice inscription from the author. James delightful debut novel, an ingeniously. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. And when that happened the right words would be found.” The inscription is the final lines of this novel. James He knew with a sudden and heart-lifting certainty that they would meet again.

Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with the added words, “P.D. First edition of the author’s first book. James' debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery, and a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

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