Description
Now a major Channel 5 series
'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But won't leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt . . .
'An exercise in impeccable detection.' New York Times
'James's skill as a yarn-spinner gives plenty of suspense to this intriguing mystery.' Financial Times
A beautiful new edition of The Private Patient, published for the first time in Faber paperbacks.
About the Author
P.D. James (1920 -2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571345120
Author P. D. James
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 350g
Dimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 25mm
