The Private Patient

<b>Queen of crime, PD James delivers another Adam Dalgliesh mystery, <i>The Private Patient</i>.</b><br> The scar on Rhoda Gradwyn's face was to be the death of her . . .<br> When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But the Manor holds a secret and deadly enemy. While she lies drowsily recovering from the anaesthetic a white-shrouded figure stealthily enters her bedroom and within minutes Rhoda is dead.<br> Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder, and later a second equally horrific death, find themselves confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt.<br> From the author of <i>Death in Holy Orders</i>and <i>Original Sin</i>comes <i>The Private Patient</i>. PD James' hero Adam Dalgliesh returns to investigate.<br> <b>Praise for <i>The Private Patient</i>-</b><br> 'Dagliesh is one of the great police detectives in the history of crime fiction' <i>The Times</i><br> 'Plenty of suspense' <i>Daily Mail</i><br> P.D. James is the queen of crime fiction and the author of numerous bestsellers including <i>A Taste for Death</i>, <i>Original Sin</i>, <i>A Certain Justice</i>and <i>Death in Holy Orders</i>. She lives in London.<br>