Genre: Fiction
Published: 1 August 1977
Publisher: Faber & Faber
International Rights have been sold to Brazil/Companhia das Letras, Canada/Knopf Canada, China/Inner Mongolia People’s Publishing, Czech Republic/Albatros Media, Finland/Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava Publishing, France/Librairie Artheme Fayard, Holland/Meulenhoff Boekerij, Italy/Mondadori Libri, Japan/Hayakawa Shobo, Poland/Foksal, Romania/Editura RAO, Russia/AST Publishers, Spain/Ediciones B, US/Scribner

Death of an Expert Witness

by The Estate of P.D. James


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.

"P.D. James is one of the national treasures of British fiction... Each new book gives pleasure not just for macabre crimes or ingenious solutions but its density of experience." - Malcolm Bradbury, Mail on Sunday

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