PD James: 3 Complete Novels Avsc

This omnibus includes the 1st, 2nd, and 4th novel in the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James which consists of 14 novels total. The first, published in 1962, is "Cover Her Face". Description: Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. The 2nd, published in 1963, is "A Mind To Murder". Description: When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder. And the 3rd, published in 1971, is "Shroud For A Nightingale". Description: Two student nurses lay dead and the great hospital nursing school is shadowed with terror.