num_pages: 256
description: This is the first Cordelia Gray mystery which introduces us to the young sleuth, now the sole proprietor of the Pryde Detective Agency, and hard at work on her first independent case. Sir Ronald Callender's son Mark is found hanged in mysterious circumstances, and he hires Cordelia to shed some light on his son's apparent suicide. But as Cordelia pieces together the facts surrounding his death, delving back into the long-buried secrets of the Callender family, she finds that Mark had many good friends - and one deadly enemy.
language: English
title: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
titlecomplete: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray, #1)
characters: Cordelia Gray, Adam Dalgliesh
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 18656
places: Cambridge, England, England, Cambridgeshire, England
series: Cordelia Gray
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Vintage Canada