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A Taste for Death

A Taste for Death

P. D. James · 1986 · 513 pages

New York Times reviewedAdam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character)FictionCabinet officersCrimes againstTramps

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Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Dalgliesh arrives to begin his investigations.

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