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The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as "the greatest living mystery writer."Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body... Read Full Overview

Though Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers, she seemed the ideal girl to help Mrs Maxie run a large Elizabethan manor house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally, pretty, ambitious and clever, was very different from the docile, repentant... Read Full Overview

La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en aquel rinc n campestre de Martingale, era el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp encontrara un trbajo adecuado y pudiera criar a su hijo sin grandes sobresaltos. La se ora Maxie necesitaba ayuda para cuidar de su marido invalido,... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview