A Taste for Death
by P. D. James
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When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: 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. . . .
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New York Times reviewed, Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Fiction, Cabinet officers, Crimes against, Tramps, Police, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Large type books, Dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Thrillers, Thriller, London (England), Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Romans policiersTimes
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A taste for death
2011, Vintage Canada
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A Taste for Death
November 28, 1998, Ballantine Books
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Un Certain Gout pour la mort
November 1991, Librairie Generale Francaise
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"The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a sixty-five-year-old spinster of the parish of St. Matthew' in Paddington, London, and Darren Wilkes, aged ten, of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared."
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