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Informationen zum Autor P. D. James 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 New editions of 5 of James's classic! bestselling novels! each with new jackets. They celebrate the world's pre-eminent crime writer and over 40 years of detective fiction. In The Skull Beneath the Skin , the second Cordelia Gray mystery from P.D. James , Cordelia is h ired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress and soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her life as it is mysterious. Zusammenfassung From P.D. James! one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the second novel to feature the famous female detective Cordelia Gray of the Pryde Detective Agency. Set on the sinister Courcy Island! The Skull Beneath the Skin is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi ! to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen letters. But it soon becomes clear that all are in danger. Trapped within the walls of the Gothic castle! the treacherous past of the island re-emerges! and everyone seems to have a motive for sending Clarissa 'down! down to hell'. Marking the return of the private detective Cordelia Gray! The Skull beneath the Skin is the sequel to An Unsuitable Job for a Woman . P.D. James is Britain's pre-eminent crime writer and the author of many bestselling titles including Death Comes To Pemberley ! Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders. ...
