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Cover Her Face is a 1962 crime novel by P. D. James, featuring detective Adam Dalgliesh. It involves the murder of a servant girl, Sally Jupp, at a country house in Essex.
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- 1962
Cover Her Face: With Roy Marsden, Phyllis Calvert, Mel Martin, Rupert Frazer. Follows Adam Dalgliesh as he investigates the death of Alice Liddell. A woman who ran a home for unwed mothers.
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- 1985-02-17
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 291
Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing. Dalgliesh, James’s master detective who rises from chief inspector in the first novel to chief superintendent and then to commander, is a serious ...
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May 8, 2001 · Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 1) Paperback – May 8, 2001. The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.”. Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman ...
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- P.D. James
- Scribner
P. D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”. – People. Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to ...
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An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...
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The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by. Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s ...
