书名：An Unsuitable Job for a Woman 不适合女人做的工作 P·D·詹姆斯

作者：P. D. James

出版社名称：Faber & Faber

出版时间：2020

语种：英语

ISBN：9780571355709

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

盛夏，风景如画的剑桥发生了一桩令人心寒的惨案。剑桥的高材生马克被发现吊死于一个农屋，嘴上还残留着紫色口红。所有人躲避着这起案子，但马克富有的父亲找到了一家刚有点起色的侦探事务所，授权科迪莉亚·格雷调查马克的死因。生嫩的女侦探竟然发现一串秘密与罪恶，并嗅到一股浓烈的谋杀气息。而同时，危险再次逼近……

女人是否适合做一名侦探？在查明真相、看穿谎言之处，这个女人或许有天然的优势；而在有些方面，她却打乱了所有人的节奏。然而，纯粹的人心中自有一套规则和尺度，甚至与世界格格不入，但这正是她们最迷人的地方。

Set in Cambridge, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the first of P.D. James's novels to feature Cordelia Gray, a compulsive thriller and a chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder.

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.

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.