![]() ![]() In Unsuitable Job, her fifth novel, James was experimenting with a different central character, Cordelia Gray, a beautiful, slight and tough 22-year-old whose life has been shaped and misshaped by experiences ranging from a poet-revolutionary father to six years in a convent school, from the art museums of Europe to loud, crowded lower-class foster homes, from her mother’s death after giving her life to the poignantly inept ex-cop Bernie Pryde who took a shine to her and made her a partner in his private detective agency. ![]() ![]() Her first four books were centered on Adam Dalgleish, a tightly constrained, deep-feeling police detective who is also a modestly well-known poet - Cover Her Face (1962), A Mind to Murder(1963), Unnatural Causes (1967) and A Shroud for a Nightingale (1971). James published An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, she’d been a novelist for just a decade. ![]()
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