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Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster‘s The Duchess of Malfi: “Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young.”

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‘The Queen of Crime.’ New York Times

Adam Dalgliesh. I’ve heard of him – ruthless, unorthodox, and working always against time.
 When the body of Sally Jupp is discovered in her bedroom – the door bolted from the inside – the occupants of Martingale house are sure that the blame for this unthinkable crime will fall on an unknown intruder. But each of them is hiding something. And there’s only one man who can sift through the layers of deceit and pretence to unmask the true murderer: Detective Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgleish.

‘A cunningly compulsive work . . . Heart-pounding. ‘Sunday Times

‘One of those extraordinary first novels which seem to step straight into the sophisticated preserves of the experienced writer.’ Guardian

Reviews

A classic story of English rural murder. ― The Times

A cunningly compulsive work . . . Heart-pounding. ― Sunday Times

There are very few thriller writers who can compete with P. D. James at her best. ― Spectator

One of those extraordinary first novels which seem to step straight into the sophisticated preserves of the experienced writer. ― Guardian

Book Description – Cover Her Face is P.D. James’s debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

P. D. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford 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 was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and 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 was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She 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 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, stepping down from the post in August 2013.)