About this title: Specially selected by Maura Healy, this series aims to offer an innovative and adventurous collection of texts that demonstrates the best of women's writing, both black and white. Complete texts reflecting a range of genres as well as different cultures and experiences are offered and the volumes contain study material and assignments at a range of levels to deepen pupils' enjoyment and understanding of literature. A reading log is also included with ideas for group and individual assignments to help pupils find their way around the texts.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446312219ISBN:0446312215
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. F-very minor spine creasing. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Popular Library
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780445031661ISBN:0445031662
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780446312219ISBN:0446312215
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, bends on front cover, light creases on spine, light aging, stk #2391e8. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books> C/o Little Br
ISBN-13:9780446314244ISBN:0446314242
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780446312219ISBN:0446312215
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Reader's crease to spine. Pages near fine. SYNOPSIS: Sally Jupp, a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder, was found strangled. Someone had decided that the wages of sin should be death, and it was up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who that someone was. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780446348256ISBN:0446348252
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Wear to edges of soft cover. Page taning from age. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780446314244ISBN:0446314242
Description: Good. No Jacket. Corners/Edges Worn, Spine Creased, Front Cover Corner Creased, Initial On First Page, Text Is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
"Why did I read an English country-house murder mystery immediately after complaining about same? I suppose because this one was actually good. The odd thing about the two James mysteries I've read so far is that while I enjoy the process of actually reading them--James's writing style and pace pleases me--I find myself with very little to say about them afterwards in terms of their content. It's sort of like the whole thing deflates as soon as you find out the solution to the mystery. For that reason, I don't suppose I'll read more of these unless I happen to pick one up on a fallow library visit."
"I like the Dalgliesh shows on PBS, and I like the books as well or even more.
This story held my interest and kept me guessing until near the end (I did figure out whodunit before the reveal).
The writer does a good job of creating and describing characters who, at first, appear to be quite unpleasant but as the story moves on these characters are given depth and you can understand that all is not always what it seems."
"Dated (the shame of the unwed mother!), very derivative of Agatha Christie. All the suspects are sullen, hateful, vengeful, have chips on their shoulders, are emotional cripples, etc. It gets kind of tiresome after awhile. And it always bothers me when the lead detective gets a lusty glimmer in his eye for someone he was previously interrogating, as Dalgliesh does in the last paragraph. Chinese wall, writers, Chinese wall."
"P.D. James definitely improved with practice. I am certainly glad this wasn't the first book of hers I ever read, as it would have been my last. Boring, predictable characters, not a very interesting mystery, and a ridiculous solution."
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