About this title: Inspector Dalgliesh and his extraordinary aunt set out to discover the shocking truth about the past of a famous mystery writer--whose ghastly murder left a circle of bizarre friends terrified that they are next on the killer's list.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Popular Library, New York
ISBN-13:9780445003088ISBN:0445003081
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light creases on spine, shelf wear to cover, slight aging. 256 p. read more
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
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
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear. Good average reading copy. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear. Good reading copy. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Acceptable. Spine is well creased. Covers show considerable wear. Acceptable Grade D reading copy. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
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
"Another excellent mystery, moody and brimming with interesting characters. This is the one that opens with a scene of a corpse in a boat off the Suffolk coast."
"I'd give this book four stars for its writing but I really disliked one thing about it. The entire mystery is summed up in the final few pages, by a confession, no less, and there aren't any clues before that. It's almost as if anyone could have "dunnit." Her later work is much more graceful and enticing, what I've read of it. This is from 1967."
"New feature of retirement - reading mysteries! Not my genre but P D James very well written. See also PBS. this one cleverly takes place within a community of mystery writers."
"I think P.D. James is too smart for me. Dalgliesh makes a stunning leap of insight as to who the killer is, why, and how the crime was committed. I read the account of the taped confession and I still didn't understand why the villain killed him."
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