A Taste for Death
- ISBN-10
- 0676971881
- ISBN-13
- 9780676971880
- Series
- A Taste for Death
- Category
- Cabinet officers
- Pages
- 624
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-28
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Author
- P. D. James
Description
Two men lie dead in the vestry of a London church, their throats cut with brutal precision. One is Sir Paul Berowne--rich, cultivated, elegant; the other, an alcoholic tramp. Enter Adam Dalgliesh: inspired, sardonic and complicated--and P.D. James' most beloved investigator of human fallibility.
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