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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mystery Series #1) (4 Full-Cast Dramatisation)
P. D. James

BBC Audiobooks America, 2007

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. The official verdict is suicide, and his aristocratic father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisted trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. Presented dramatized on 2 CDs.

The Rogue's Return (Most Unsuitable Men Trilogy, Book 3) (Harlequin Historicals #376)

4 reviews
Margaret Moore

Harlequin, 1997

The Rogue's Return
Love it. Love to read about about men in this time

The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (Harlequin Romance)

1 review
Liz Fielding

Harlequin, 2008

Pink taxis and snowglobe magic: a short romance with humor, fun and emotional depth
Liz Fielding's THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE is a short tender romance filled with humor and emotion that sets romance within the context of family and social obligations and expectations. This romance is part of a multi-author series entitled Desert Brides. Single mother Diane Metcalfe works as a chauffeur at Capitol Cars assigned to the school and airport runs --- the no-frills low end of ...

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 1)

18 reviews
P.D. James

Touchstone, 2001

Dalgliesh Echoes beyond His Reach
Baroness James deserves great credit for coming up with this most unusual and interesting novel. Her detective, private investigator Cordelia Grey, is a landmark in the history of female detective fiction. The clever way that Ms. James connects this unlikely operative to the mighty Adam Dalgliesh adds great insight into both characters. The story itself is full of the unexpected . . . while ...

An Unsuitable Attachment

2 reviews
Barbara Pym

Moyer Bell, 2007

Romance, social class, church and a cat.
Barbara Pym is often called the Jane Austen of our time. Insofar as she observes keenly the social intercourse, inconsistancies and mores of her own time and place, this is true. But do not regard her as a duplicate of anyone. Her dry, elegant observations reach their height in An Unsuitable Attachment, a meandering story which takes place in a London parish in the 1960's. Pym lightly ...

Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

If you are off on a trip or feeling restless - read this!
Jane Robinson is a genius - although many readers of this anthology might not realise it at first. She is clearly someone who loves her work, and her collection of travel books by women writers - she has, in "Unsuitable for Ladies" cut through much of the long travelogue and found pertinent, thought provoking and often laugh out loud quotes. And they are so interesting....and so ...

An Unsuitable Match (Signet Regency Romance)

4 reviews
Patricia Oliver

Signet, 1997

Another winner from Patricia Oliver
I've really enjoyed Patricia Oliver's series of linked books, each dealing with one member of a group of rakehells and how they succumb, not altogether willingly, to the joys of romance and marriage. This one is one of the best. Serena is a perfect heroine: no simpering miss, but a strong-willed woman who is not on the catch for a husband. Nor is she particularly beautiful, and as her father ...

A Most Unsuitable Groom (The Beckets of Romney Marsh)

5 reviews
Kasey Michaels

HQN Books, 2007

A Great Read!
Spencer Becket returns home from the war having lost a portion of his memory. It doesn't seem to matter much to him until a fiery redheaded woman appears at his home late one night, announcing that he is the father of her unborn child. Being the honorable man that he is, he immediately, unquestioningly, insists that they marry. Instrumental in keeping Spencer and the other soldiers alive after ...

A Most Unsuitable Man (Signet Historical Romance)

17 reviews
Jo Beverley

Signet, 2005

Sing like a lark - we all need a Hero!
Ah! Taming of the Shrew? Not quite, but close enough. Damaris, (lovely name) last seen shrieking & threating in the original book has a wonderful background to unveil as a plausible explanation for her grasping behaviour. Her father was a merchant and varment of the high seas, and Damaris unabashedly shares his piratical tendencies. A girl after my own heart - in fact, just as ...

Johnson Plays: 1: Insignificance, Unsuitable for Adults, and Cries from the Mammal House (Contemporary ...
Terry Johnson

A&C Black, 2003

Insignificance : "A piece that works on just about every level: the intellectual, the emotional, the playful ... one of the landmark plays of the decade."- Guardian Unsuitable for Adults : "Powerfully written ... funny, moving, and occasionally (intentionally) enraging."- Financial Times Cries from the Mammal House : "Freewheeling, tough, lyrical, and thrillingly unpredictable." - Sunday Times " Terry Johnson is ...

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mystery Series #1) (4 Full-Cast Dramatisation)
P. D. James

BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2003

Without warning, a final-year Cambridge student leaves and takes a job as a gardener. Eighteen days later he's found hanging by the neck in his cottage. Cordelia Gray, sole proprietor of the Pryde Detective Agency, uncovers long-suppressed family secrets. The full-cast dramatisation of this bestselling novel stars Judi Bowker as Cordelia Gray with Anna Massey as Miss Learning.

The Wastrel (Most Unsuitable Men Trilogy, Book 1) (Harlequin Historical #344)

3 reviews
Margaret Moore

Harlequin, 1996

book description
Clara Wells's eccentric family drew enough sidelong glances and she could do without the attentions of London's most notorious rake. But the sinfully charming Lord Mulholland was renowned for getting whatever, or whomever, he desired... Paris Mulholland had long guarded his heart with a string of elegant, casual conquests, yet Clara's defiant pride enticed him in a way no coy flirtation ever ...

The Most Unsuitable Wife: The Kincaid's (Ballad Romances)

6 reviews
Clemmons Caroline

Zebra, 2003

The Most Unsuitable Wife by Caroline Clemmons
Pearl Parker tugged at my heartstrings and made me smile in The Most Unsuitable Wife by Caroline Clemmons. Drake Kincaid, tall, broadshouldered, supremely confident Texas rancher heats up the story as his desire for strong-willed Pearl grows into admiration and love. The love scene following their marriage of convenience, warmed my heart with the most sensual and poignant scene I've read in a ...

P. D. James Box Set (The Black Tower, Shroud for a Nightingale, Unnatural Causes, An Unsuitable Job for a ...

Popular Library, 1975

This is a boxed set of early 70s P. D. James Mysteries by Popular Library. The number of pages refers to Book I of the Series, The Black Tower. There are 4 books in the slipcase: The Black Tower, Shroud for a Nightingale, Unnatural Causes and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.

An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text (Bible in the Modern World)
Hugh, S. Pyper

Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd, 2005

The real 'scandal' of the Bible, suggests Hugh Pyper, lies not in any salaciousness it may contain but in its deep impropriety as a venerable book, and the 'unsuitability' of its reality to the expectations of its readers. This collection of essays, published and previously unpublished, will delight readers with its wit and profundity. Among them, 'The Selfish Text: Memetics and the Bible' deploys Richard Dawkins's notion of memes to advance ...

The Unsuitable Miss Martingale (Signet Regency Romance)

7 reviews
Barbara Hazard

Signet, 2001

This novel is very enjoyable!
Lily Martingale is not particularly impressed when she first meets Viscount Halpern. He on the other hand, becomes increasingly intrigued with her, but there are quite a few problems to overcome before they can have their happily ever after. First of all, Lily's parentage is somewhat questionable and unimpressive. The Viscount, on the other hand, is the heir to the Marquis of Braybourne and is ...

The Dark Duke (Most Unsuitable Men Trilogy, Book 2) (Harlequin Historical #364)

2 reviews
Margaret Moore

Harlequin, 1997

the plain companion and the dark duke....
this second book in the Most Unsuitable Men trilogy has the supposedly plain Hester, whom we first met in The Wastrel (Most Unsuitable Men Trilogy, Book 1) (Harlequin Historical #344), whose beautiful sisters have both married, and whose parents never even try to find a husband for her. Hester then becomes companion to Duchess Barroughby-a vain harridan of a woman who treats everyone but her ...

The Unsuitable Suitor (Zebra Regency Romance)

3 reviews
Marilyn Clay

Zebra, 1997

Another entertaining love story from Marilyn Clay!
If you like a fast-paced story, laced with humor, you'll surely enjoy The Unsuitable Suitor. Lord Peterbloom is all that a hero should be, handsome, worldly, and quite content with his life, until Miss Miranda Fraser appears on the scene and indignantly reminds him of the checkered past he thought he had sucessfully lived down. Ms. Clay's detailed descriptions of life in the Regency period ...

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