A Taste for Death - Softcover

James, P. D.

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ISBN 10: 0446323527 ISBN 13: 9780446323529

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1996

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Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates the throat-slashing murders, in a London church, of Sir Paul Berowne, former Minister of State, and a tramp named Harry Mack, killings that lead Dalgliesh along a most unusual trail

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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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"Splendidly suspenseful."
--The Washington Post Book World

"A SUPERB DETECTIVE NOVEL . . . AND A GIFT TO ALL READERS."
--USA Today

"Glitters with the high-gloss anxiety of a first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm . . . An intricate, compassionate novel."
--The Boston Globe

"MARVELOUS."
--Newsweek
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