Two complete mysteries in one volume featuring a young female sleuth from a New York Times–bestselling author and “champion of the detective mystery”****(The New York Times).

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency.

In An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Cordelia’s first assignment finds her hired to investigate the death of a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances.

In The Skull Beneath the Skin, Cordelia is invited to a isolated island to protect an actress, only to find that the death threats she has been receiving are all too real.

Praise for P.D. James

“An impeccable pleasure to read.” —Kirkus Reviews

“One of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession.” —The Washington Post

“One of the most chilling crime writers around.” —Observer

“The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime.” —The Sunday Times (London)