Death in Holy Orders
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Internetová cena:
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223,00 Kč 
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Běžná cena:
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279,00 Kč |
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| Autor: |
P. D. James
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
560 |
| Formát: |
13 x 19,5 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9780571355716 |
| Nakladatel: |
Faber & Faber |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
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Současná beletrie
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Set in her beloved East Anglia, Death in Holy Orders is the fourteenth novel in P.D. James's Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction filled with intrigue and suspense.
When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder.
Review
Thoroughly gripping. ― Guardian
Pure pleasure. ― Spectator
A grand gothic novel of gut-wrenching suspense, satisfying at all levels . . . Nobody can put the reader in the eye of the storm quite like P. D. James. ― Sunday Express
is a long time since I immersed myself in a book with such blissful enjoyment. ― Country Life
About the Author
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 Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013.
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