Death of an Expert Witness

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 400 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571350827

Published:2 Jan 2020

Weight:314g

Dimensions:197 x 129 x 26 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

电话是六点十二分打进来的。他摸到了听筒，电话铃声终于停止了。他通常会在电话铃响第一声的时候接电活，但是他还是害怕铃声会把奈尔吵醒。打电话的人他很熟悉，他也预料到会有人打电话叫他过去。电话是警佐多伊尔打来的。他带着爱尔兰式发音的声音非常自信。

“科里森医生？”这显然是一句多余的废话。谁会在早上六点十二分在这个空荡荡的房间里接电话呢？他没有回答，电话那头的人继续说道：

“我们找到了一具尸体。在姆丁顿西北一英里处的荒原上的白平地里，是一句女尸，从表面上看是被人掐死的。死因应该很明显，但是这里离你家很近，所以……

Set on the bleak fens of East Anglia, Death of an Expert Witness is the seventh novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley and Children of Men.

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again.

作者简介

P.D. 詹姆斯出生于英国伦敦牛津，尽管只有高中毕业，但詹姆斯凭借其勤奋自修的学识，与文笔脱俗的创作，得到文学圈极高的赞誉。她三十八岁开始发表作品，四十二岁时完成长篇推理《掩上她的脸》（Cover Her Face，1962），赢得文坛一片赞赏。她的作品《夜莺的尸衣》和《教堂谋杀案》均获得CWA和MWA最佳小说奖。

由于写作有成，她获得许多国际知名文学奖，包括在英国犯罪作家推理协会颁发的、有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的“钻石匕首奖”，并受英国皇室勋封为女男爵，更获颁美国侦探作家协会终身成就奖——“大师奖”，以及“爱伦·坡奖”。

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.