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The Private Patient Paperback / softback

by P. D. James, P. D. James

Part of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series

Paperback / softback

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Description

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life.

But she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt . . .