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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....
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- Titul
- A Taste for Death
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Vydavateľ
- Random House Inc
- Rok vydania
- 2011
- ISBN13
- 9780307758989
- Série
- Adam Dalgliesh
- Štítky
- Beletria, Detektívky & Thriller, Thrillery, Politika, Vzťahy, Vraždy, Britská literatúra, Klasické detektívky, Úmrtia, Anglicko, Veľká Británia, Anglická literatúra, Sfilmované, Londýn, Rodinné vzťahy, Cirkev, Samovražda, Aristokracia, šľachta, Hádanky a rébusy, Skandály a aféry, Brutalita
- Prvé vydanie
- 1986
- Pôvodný názov
- A Taste for Death
- Hodnotenie
- 4 z 5
- Anotácia
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....