An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 1)
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ISBN: 0743219554 / Publisher: Scribner, April 2001
Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.
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