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Description

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest... read more

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First Sentence

The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a sixty-five-year-old spinster of the parish of St. Matthew' in Paddington, London, and Darren Wilkes, aged ten, of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared.

Series

This is book 7 in the Adam Dalgliesh series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. P. D. James (Author)
 

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