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  • The Skull Beneath the Skin

  • By: P. D. James
  • Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
  • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

A Cordelia Gray Mystery.

Marking the return of Cordelia Gray, The Skull Beneath the Skin is a complex mystery which more than lives up to its predecessor, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious.

Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen letters. But it soon becomes clear that all are in danger. Trapped within the walls of the Gothic castle, the treacherous past of the island re-emerges, and everyone seems to have a motive for sending Clarissa 'down, down to hell'.

©1982 P.D. James (P)2014 Faber Audio

Critic Reviews

"A fine novel... from its very first pages you feel you are in marvellously sure hands." ( The Times)
"A masterly version of the clue-and-alibi game ... five star." ( Guardian)

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