Cover Her Face

P. D. James

Book 1 of Inspector Adam Dalgliesh

Language: English

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: Jan 1, 1962

Description:

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...And it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who that someone is.

Review

“The finest English crime novelist of her generation.” -- The Globe and Mail

“The reigning mistress of murder...Her vivid, compelling whodunits have made James one of the world’s leading crime writers and a worthy successor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.” -- Time

From the Inside Flap

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...And it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who that someone is.