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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307270777

ISBN-139780307270771

eBay Product ID (ePID)66162362

Product Key Features

Book TitlePrivate Patient

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicContemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / Traditional

GenreFiction

AuthorP.D. James

Book SeriesAdam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight22.8 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-027137

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown." - Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful." - The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears." - The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." - Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." - Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." - Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisCommander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, in this welcome addition to the Dalgliesh canon.

LC Classification NumberPR6060.A467P75 2008