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 People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.”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 … 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.
Cover Her Face is P.D. James’ delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
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Back to basics! I switched from modern cozies and crime fiction to a supposed blast from the past. I remembered a few PD James novels I read in college as part of my mystery fiction independent studies and decided to start the series.
As expected, very reminiscent of Agatha Christie but with a little more modern appeal. I enjoyed the characters …
A classic closed room whodunit!
Answering the question of a book I’ve been meaning to re-read: I’ve been meaning to re-read some of the books of P.D. James — and I started reading Cover Her Face, her very first Adam Dalgleish, a few nights ago. I’m amazed by her wonderful character development; and, though this is the first time a reader meets Dalgleish, and even though his …
Cover Her Face is the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery and P.D. James’ first novel. It is a story of a young, vivacious, free-spirited woman named Sally Jupp who was murdered at an English country estate. Sally worked for the Maxie family who owned the estate and the rest of the novel is spent trying to figure out who killed her.
Well, P.D. James has …
Her writing is world class. Great character and plot development from one of the very best mystery writers of the world.
I love detective stories where the case is a vehicle for the characters to be developed. PD James is very good at it.
P.D. James holds the reader’s interest and there are surprising turns as the story progresses.
Can’t beat a Dalgleish case if you are an Anglophile…