Book description
Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a
private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years
1919-1939. One of the museum galleries displays exhibits from the most
notorious murder cases of those inter-war years, and now a modern
killer is at work, the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display.
All the people at the Dupayne - the trustees, the staff and the
volunteers - have the means and the opportunity for murder. One of
them has the ruthlessness to kill and kill again. 'A totally absorbing
read . . . A detective thriller of superb quality, with a strong,
compelling plot and characters who would be interesting even if they
were not involved in murder.' Maggie Pringle, Daily Express
P. D. James served in the forensic and criminal justice departments
of the Home Office until her retirement in 1979. She was made a Life
Peer in 1991. Her detective novels include Cover Her Face, An Unsuitable
Job for a Woman, Death of an Expert Witness, A Taste for Death, Original
Sin, A Certain Justice, Death in Holy Orders and The Murder Room. Many
of them have been adapted for television. Her autobiography Time to be
in Earnest appeared in 1991.
