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Informationen zum Autor P. D. James (1920-2014) was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray! and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962)! An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)! Innocent Blood (1980)! Children of Men (1992)! and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011). James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain! America! Italy and Scandinavia! including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities! was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors! and stood down from this role in 2013. Klappentext A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. Set in London, A Mind to Murder is the second novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the award-winning author of Death Comes To Pemberley and Children of Men. Zusammenfassung A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart.
