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Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead.
- Adam Dalgliesh
Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a...
- Adam Dalgliesh
Cover Her Face: With Roy Marsden, Phyllis Calvert, Mel Martin, Rupert Frazer. Follows Adam Dalgliesh as he investigates the death of Alice Liddell. A woman who ran a home for unwed mothers.
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- 1985-02-17
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Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray.
In diesem liebenswert-altmodischen TV-Krimi nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von P.D. James fahndet Adam Dalgliesh nach dem Mörder der allzu übertrieben selbstbewusst auftretenden Hausangestellten Sally Jupp.
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
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Als neuer Titel wurde daher Cover Her Face bestimmt, entsprechend dem im Buch an prominenter Stelle erscheinenden Zitat „Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle, she died young …“ aus Die Herzogin von Malfi (Originaltitel The Duchess of Malfi ), einer Tragödie von John Webster (1612/1613).
Adam Dalgliesh ist der Protagonist in 14 Romanen der britischen Schriftstellerin P. D. James. Außerdem tritt er als Nebenfigur in zwei weiteren Kriminalromanen mit der Privatdetektivin Cordelia Gray auf. Die Fälle spielen in der Jetztzeit. Das erste Auftreten Dalglieshs ist 1962 in Cover Her Face.
