Adam Dalgliesh mystery

This mystery from the pen of author P.D. James centres around the lives of Mrs Maxie and her parlour maid, Sally Jupp. As Mrs Maxie learns of her son's sudden engagement, the seemingly quiet Sally seems to be involved and by morning she is dead.

The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are experts in violent death. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.

Superintendent Dalgliesh's holiday plans are interrupted when crime-writer Maurice Seton's dead body is discovered in a drifting dinghy off the Suffolk Coast.