An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James (paperback book)

From the writer Newsweek dubbed the New Queen of Crime comes a landmark novel in British detective fiction. When young private investigator Cordelia Gray unexpectedly inherits a struggling detective agency, her first real case takes her to Cambridge, where she is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy man’s son. But the more Cordelia digs, the more convinced she becomes that nothing about the young man’s death is as straightforward as it seems. P. D. James brings her customary intelligence, psychological depth, and beautifully observed prose to bear on a mystery that is as much about identity, class, and the nature of justice as it is about murder. And in Cordelia Gray — resourceful, principled, and quietly formidable — she created one of crime fiction’s most compelling and enduring heroines. A modern classic of the genre.

In vintage condition.