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Death Comes To Pemberley
de James, P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James Of Holland Park)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307959856
- ISBN 13
- 9780307959850
- Librería
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Modesto, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2011. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0307959856 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was published in 1962. Many of James's mystery novels take place against the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal justice system and the National Health Service, in which she worked for decades starting in the 1940s. Two years after the publication of Cover Her Face, James's husband died, and she took a position as a civil servant within the criminal section of the Home Office. She worked in government service until her retirement in 1979. " (from Wikipedia) .
Sinopsis
P. D. JAMES was born in Oxford in 1920 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 has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has 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 is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has 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 has 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. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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- Librería
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- A39947
- Título
- Death Comes To Pemberley
- Autor
- James, P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James Of Holland Park)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307959856
- ISBN 13
- 9780307959850
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2011
- Palabras clave
- 0307959856, Mystery, P. D. James, England, Historical Fiction
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S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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Sobre S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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