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Meet the dark and brooding Dalgliesh in Faber’s third Collectors’ Edition – and read the novel that launched P.D. James’s career as the world’s pre-eminent crime writer.
This Collectors’ Edition is sewn by hand and then quarter-bound in cloth, also by hand, in Yorkshire. With a first impression of just 300, each copy is finished with printed endpapers, head and tail bands and a ribbon marker.
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. Set against the English countryside, Cover Her Face is a classic murder mystery filled with James’s trademark plot twists, intrigue, and suspense.
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 in 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…
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