Private Patient (Tp/B)

When the Notorious Investigative Journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, Booked Into Mr Chandler-Powell's Private Clinic in Dorset for the Removal of a Disfiguring and Long-Standing Facial Scar, She Had Every Prospect of a Successful Operation by a Distinguished Surgeon, a Week's Peaceful Convalescence in One of Dorset's Most Beautiful Manor Houses and the Beginning of a New Life. She Was Never to Leave Cheverell Manor Alive. Dalgliesh and His Team Are Called in to Investigate the Murder, and Later a Second Death, Which Are to Raise Even More Complicated Problems Than the Question of Innocence or Guilt. a New Detective Novel by P D James is Always Keenly Awaited and "The Private Patient" Will Undoubtedly Equal the Success of Her World-Wide Best-Seller, "The Lighthouse". It Displays the Qualities Which P D James' Readers Have Come to Expect a Masterly Psychological and Emotional Richness of Characterisation, a Vivid Evocation of Place and a Credible and Exciting Mystery. "The Private Patient" is A