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      Death in Holy Orders

      by P.D. James
      Published
      Apr 2001
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      448
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      An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Book 11

      About This Book

      On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in a remote, ratified community of the faithful -- and the frightened. For when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime, but to begin an unholy order of murder....

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      Book 11
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      Law Enforcement Mystery Police Procedural Traditional British

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