![]() ![]() A family friend, Catherine Bowers, is a frequent visitor, and imagines herself as becoming married to Stephen. Simon and Eleanor’s widowed daughter Deborah also lives there, and their son, Stephen a trainee surgeon visits often from London. The head of the family is Simon Maxie who is bedridden and be nursed by his wife Eleanor and Martha, the housekeeper. Sally, an unmarried mother, is given a position as a live in domestic servant at Martingale, the home of the Maxie family. I will be going through the entire plot so read no further if you intend to read the book and be kept in suspense! This is a murder mystery set in the 1950s in a rural village outside London. Bound in cloth with a design by the illustrator. Set in Bembo, printed on Abbey Wove paper at Vicenza, Italy. It was originally published in 1962 by Faber and Faber. This is the first of the Adam Dalgliesh crime novels written by PD James. ![]()
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