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A Taste for Death

P. D. James

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this "treat for mystery lovers” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV

“A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.” —The Boston Globe

How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death....

GenresFictionMystery & DetectiveTraditionalCrimeThrillers

480 pages, 33 editions

English edition · First published 1986 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ISBN 9781400096473

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Editions

33 editions

English

  • A Taste for Death · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 2005 · ISBN 9781400096473 · 1 reader This page
  • A Taste for Death · Faber & Faber · 2019 · ISBN 9780571350742
  • A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, Book 7)(BBC Radio Audio Theater Dramatization) · BBC Worldwide, Ltd. and Blackstone Audio · 2014 · ISBN 9781481510752
  • A Taste for Death: Library Edition · Blackstone Pub · 2014 · ISBN 9781481510745
  • A Taste For Death (adam Dalgliesh Series #7) · Audiogo · 2010 · ISBN 9781405690379
  • A Taste For Death · Random House Digital Inc. · 2010 · ISBN 9780307758989
  • A Taste for Death · Faber · 2010 · ISBN 9780571248919
  • A Taste for Death (BBC Radio Full Cast Drama) · AudioGO · 2010 · ISBN 9781602838536
  • A Taste For Death (adam Dalgliesh Series #7) · Books On Tape, Inc. · 2009 · ISBN 9781415961605
  • A Taste For Death · BBC Books · 2008 · ISBN 9781408406755
  • A Taste for Death · Faber & Faber · 2008 · ISBN 9780571248667
  • A Taste for Death · Knopf Canada · 2007 · ISBN 9781400025107
  • A Taste for Death · Faber & Faber · 2005 · ISBN 9780571229604
  • A Taste for Death · Ballantine Books · 1999 · ISBN 9780345469380
  • A Taste for Death · Ballantine Books · 1999 · ISBN 9780345429162
  • A Taste for Death: Part 1 of 2 · Books on Tape, Incorporated · 1994 · ISBN 9780736627030
  • A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #7) · Chivers Audio Books · 1991 · ISBN 9780816195763
  • A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #7) · Chivers Audio Books · 1991 · ISBN 9780745160634
  • A Taste for Death · Random House · 1991 · ISBN 9780394563312
  • A Taste for Death · Penguin · 1989 · ISBN 9780140129540
  • A Taste for Death · G.K. Hall · 1987 · ISBN 9780816142651
  • A Taste for Death · Sphere · 1987 · ISBN 9780747403463
  • A Taste for Death · Chivers · 1987 · ISBN 9780862202057
  • A Taste for Death · Sphere · 1987 · ISBN 9780722152225
  • A Taste for Death · Lester & Orpen Dennys · 1986 · ISBN 9780886191443
  • A Taste for Death · Ballantine Books · 1986 · ISBN 9780446323529
  • A Taste for Death · Faber and Faber · 1986 · ISBN 9780345429155
  • A Taste for Death · Knopf · 1986 · ISBN 9780394555836
  • A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #7) · Penguin Books · 1986 · ISBN 9780039455583
  • A Taste for Death · Alfred A. Knopf · 1986 · ISBN 9780886191429
  • A Taste for Death · Faber and Faber · 1986 · ISBN 9780571145706
  • A Taste for Death · Faber · 1986 · ISBN 9780571137992
  • A Taste for Death · Ballantine Books · 1986 · ISBN 9780345430588

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