JAMES, P. D. (PHYLLIS DOROTHY JAMES, BARONESS JAMES OF HOLLAND PARK) — Murder Room

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 037543223X. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some very beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a very faint hint of a previous owner's initials on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have a small nick with wrinkling to the laminate at the top rear corner of the dust jacket. "Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was published in 1962. Many of James's mystery novels take place against the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal justice system and the National Health Service, in which she worked for decades starting in the 1940s. Two years after the publication of Cover Her Face, James's husband died, and she took a position as a civil servant within the criminal section of the Home Office. She worked in government service until her retirement in 1979. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .