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...Taste for Death marks the long awaited return of Commander Adam Dagliesh, a sensitive yet super-sly inspector, who hasn't graced James' novels in the last nine years. Now back in action, Dagliesh's current task is to investigate what appears to be the double suicide of politically prominent Sir Paul Berowne and town tramp Harry Mack, found together in a church vestry with their throats...
...Dagliesh guesses, and as any astute mystery fan knows, appearances can be dangerously deceiving. Why would two men of such disparate social classes as Berowne and Mack join together in a suicide pact? Why had someone just weeks earlier sent Berowne a poison pen letter intimating his involvement in the deaths of his first wife, his mother's nurse and the family housekeeper...
...Berowne actively engaged Dagliesh's help in locating the source of the letter and then resigned from public life--and later, apparently, from life in general? And, above all, why does every member of the Berowne family have an almost-too-airtight alibi on the night of the apparent suicide...
Clearly something is foul in the city of London, and Dagliesh is determined to find out what...
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