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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill"--Amazon.com.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by <i>People</i> magazine as "the greatest living mystery writer."</b> <p/>Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler's fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is. <p/><i>Cover Her Face</i> is P.D. James' delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A classic story of English rural murder."-- "The Times (UK)"<br><br>"One of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession."-- "The Washington Post"<br><br>"One of the most chilling crime writers around."-- "Observer"<br><br>The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime.-- "The Sunday Times (London)"<br>

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