Cover Her Face (novel)
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| Author | P. D. James |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Adam Dalgliesh stories #1 |
| Genre(s) | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Released | December 1962 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Followed by | A Mind to Murder |
Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone - or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young."
[edit] Plot summary
This is a typical and largely conventional "country house" murder. Sally Jupp, who knows the aforementioned drug dealer before his untimely demise, is an unmarried mother who, after a spell at a home for "fallen women" finds work as a maid for the aristocratic but financially challenged Maxie family, who have a crumbling house, terminally ill and bedstricken father, etc., and in which internecine strife is rife. After stirring up all around her, she dies. Dalgliesh investigates the murder and tries to piece together who killed whom.
