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A Taste for Death, Phyllis Dorothy James
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- A Taste for Death
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Verlag
- Random House Inc
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- ISBN13
- 9780307758989
- Reihe
- Adam Dalgliesh
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Thriller, Politik, Beziehungen, Morde, Klassische Krimis, Britische Literatur, Tod, England, Großbritannien, Englische Literatur, Verfilmt, London, Familienbeziehungen, Kirche, Selbstmord, Aristokratie, Adel, Rätsel, Skandale und Affären, Brutalität
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1986
- Originaltitel
- A Taste for Death
- Bewertung
- 4 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....