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	MYSTERY!: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Full Series Description
		Smart, strong-willed, fiercely independent, Cordelia Gray is back, with Edith Sparshott by her side, her dedication to the trade never stronger -- and undeterred by her new status as mother-to-be.
		In the later stories, written directly for television, Cordelia finds herself juggling work and pregnancy, struggling to keep the agency solvent, while also trying to come to terms with the illness and death of her unborn child's father, a friend she knew briefly in Italy.
		Cordelia is relieved to be offered, finally, what she believes is a simple surveillance case in Living on Risk.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/programs/unsuitablejob/full.html (358 words)

	Amazon.com: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries (Audio)): Books: P. D. James,Tammy Ustinov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cordelia Gray is an engaging detective conveying just the right balance of ingenuousness and fierce determination, traits that continue her appeal in James's The Skull Beneath the Skin.
		Cordelia Gray is a young woman learning her investigatory trade when her partner, Bernie Pryde, cuts his life short.
		As soon as Cordelia starts searching and asking questions regarding the young heir's death, she finds herself convinced that the case is one of murder, not suicide, and that her own life may be at risk.
	www.amazon.com /Unsuitable-Woman-Cordelia-Mysteries-Audio/dp/0745160646 (2290 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
		Cordelia had no need to adopt Bevis's expedient of dodging through the mid-morning traffic which cluttered Kingly Street and squinting at the plaque through a dazzle of grinding delivery vans and taxis to recognize stark mathematical fact: the neat bronze oblong, so carefully designed and so expensive, was half an inch out of true.
		Cordelia avoided Bevis's eyes, which she guessed were rolling heavenward, and they climbed the narrow, linoleum-covered stairs in single file, Cordelia leading, past the single lavatory and washroom which served all the tenants in the building (she hoped that Sir George wouldn't need to use it), and into the outer office on the third floor.
		Cordelia still used Bernie's old oak desk, still imagined that she could trace the outline of the bowl in which he had bled away his life, could still identify one particular stain of spilled blood and water.
	randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770429706&view=excerpt (5155 words)

	MYSTERY!: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Sacrifice
		Cordelia Gray (Helen Baxendale) unexpectedly inherits the private detective agency where she works when her boss, Bernie Pryde (Jeff Nuttall), commits suicide.
		Cordelia Gray (Helen Baxendale) inherits a run-down detective agency when her ex-policeman boss and mentor, Bernie Pryde (Jeff Nuttall), commits suicide.
		Cordelia's (Helen Baxendale) inquiries into Mark Callender's suicide are increasingly unwelcome: someone is trying to scare her off.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/programs/unsuitablejob/sacrifice.html (256 words)

	Mystery Guide - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cordelia Gray comes to work one morning at Pryde's Detective Agency to discover that her partner, Bernard Pryde, has killed himself.
		Cordelia had the same type of experience: she is only 22 and has had to make her own way in life through a succession of foster homes, schools, and the bohemia of pseudo-revolutionaries.
		Cordelia reads a book by Hardy at one point and the situation suggests Jude Fawley's agonizing struggle to study at Christminster; I'll stretch it further and say that P. James is the Thomas Hardy of mysteries.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkJamesWoman.html (599 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Washington Post Book Club: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
		"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" is the ordeal of a female detective, Cordelia Gray, who is left with the struggle of single-handedly operating a detective agency left to her upon the death of her male partner.
		Cordelia also inadvertantly causes the death of a third party by the end of her investigation and doesn't come clean when questioned by Scotland Yard's Inspector Adam Dalgliesh.
		Finally, Cordelia's solitude is what's most vivid to me about this novel: an orphan who's cut off from the concerns of her own generation, she's in line with the mystery tradition's other great solitary seekers after truth: Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A39166-2004Apr24?language=printer (2827 words)

	PD James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She has also written two books starring PI Cordelia Gray but her most successful novel to date is her non-series book Innocent Blood.
		Cordelia Gray, head of the Pryde Detective Agency, investigates the apparent suicide of a young Cambridge student and finds herself embroiled in murder.
		Hired as a bodyguard to faded actress Clarissa Lisle, the recent recipient of numerous death threats, Cordelia Gray accompanies the actress to an island castle, whose owner collects funeral paraphernalia, in a full-cast dramatization of the classic mystery.
	www.bastulli.com /James/PDJAMES.htm (1171 words)

	James Kay Polk GRAY/Salina Cordelia SPEAKS
		Name: Roy Clyde "Nick" GRAY Born: 7 Oct 1897 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Married: 9 Oct 1918 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Died: 7 Dec 1986 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Spouses: Ellen Beatrice MILNOR Mrs.
		Name: Pearl Marina GRAY Born: 4 Sep 1900 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Married: 20 Jun 1919 at: Died: 1 Jun 1920 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Spouses: Clyde SCHROEDER
		Name: Gladys Louise GRAY Born: 4 Apr 1904 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Married: 25 Jul 1926 at: Bartlesville, Washington, OK Died: 4 Nov 1981 at: Eugene, Lane, OR Spouses: Collie Bryan WILSON
	www.usgennet.org /family/baicon/data/fam15072.htm (335 words)

	Book Review by John R. Pierce
		Cordelia had entered into a partnership with an experienced detective and inherited the agency upon his suicide.
		The young man's father, a noted scientist, hires Cordelia to investigate the reasons for the death.
		Cordelia Gray's character is depicted somewhat fully, the other characters somewhat less so.
	www.johnrpierce.com /se1.html (230 words)

	GerardButler (Dot) Net Gerry Butler Career Accomplishments in Movies, Television and Stage: Showing detailed information
		Cordelia's (Helen Baxendale) latest case comes her way from an unexpected source.
		Superintendent Fergusson (Struan Rodger) asks Cordelia to end her investigation into Bolton's (Gerard Butler) death -- only to have daughter Laura (Flora Montgomery) hire her to find out what her ex-doctor-boyfriend was really up to.
		Cordelia finds herself pursuing a case in which all roads lead back to Fergusson.
	www.gerardbutler.net /career/movie_detail.php?id=23 (291 words)

	Cordelia Gray
		Cordelia's inherits a detective agency when her mentor, Bernie Pryde, commits suicide.
		But as the book progresses, and she learns the ropes and understand herself, it turns out Cordelia is exactly the right woman for the job.
		Sparshott, who insists on taking a more active role in the cases that come their way, due to her boss's "condition." I may be wrong, but it seems the last pregnant private eye (and possibly the genre's first) was Max Allan Collins Ms.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /gray.html (590 words)

	Salon \| Blue Glow
		She infuses rookie P.I. Cordelia with steadiness, determination and, in her best scenes, a delightful, contagious surprise at her own resourcefulness.
		Their first case starts out as a simple investigation into the suicide of a famous scientist's son and ends up as one of those serpentine mysteries hinging on seamy family secrets.
		In Cordelia, who favors thick-soled flats, loose flowery skirts and sensible fl tights, we finally have a TV woman who knows how to dress for success.
	www.salon.com /ent/glow/1998/04/23glow.html (501 words)

	P. D. James's Works
		Plot summary and comments: The novel begins by introducing Cordelia Gray, 22-year-old junior partner in a barely solvent detective agency, who suddenly succeeds to the sole proprietorship after her boss commits suicide.
		She is stunned when a customer actually walks in her door some days later; the case turns out to be an investigation of the suspicious death of a Cambridge student, carried out on behalf of his father, the wealthy and reclusive biologist Sir Ronald Callender.
		Finding weird discrepancies in the circumstances (a lipstick stain on his mouth and a smutty picture nearby), Cordelia follows a trail of hidden secrets among his friends and family to arrive at the truth of the murder--not without some danger to herself.
	pbpl.physics.ucla.edu /~yoder/mystery/jameswork.html (1348 words)

	Readers' Services Annotations - Reviews
		Cordelia Gray has just inherited Pryde’s Detective Agency from her recently deceased boss, Bernie, when she is summoned to investigate the apparent suicide of a handsome Cambridge dropout, Mark Callender.
		With Berrnie’s voice guiding her, along with her own good instincts, Cordelia pursues every possible lead, befriending Mark’s fellow Cambridge friends, his recent gloomy landlady, a family nanny, and a senile family doctor in order to confirm her suspicions about this questionable death.
		The reader is so drawn into Cordelia’s case that we are holding our breath for her with each mental and physical challenge she faces.
	www.skokie.lib.il.us /Annotations/BookReview.asp?BookID=1193 (144 words)

	Washington Post Book Club: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (washingtonpost.com)
		That's the core question posed by the title of P.D. James's classic 1977 mystery novel, "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman." Cordelia Gray is a novice private investigator who makes some whopping mistakes in her investigation of the death of Cambridge undergraduate Mark Callender.
		Maureen Corrigan: I think Cordelia's emotional distance from her own biological parents gives her a necessary "cold eye" with which to regard Mark's father.
		The second Cordelia Gray is great--it's called "The Skull Beneath the Skin." ALso wonderful is "A Taste for Death" and "A Certain Justice" and "Innocent Blood."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A39166-2004Apr24.html (2961 words)

	"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Summary: Cordelia Grey is the reluctant owner of a ramshackle investigation agency following the suicide of her boss...
		The trick was to make a gutsy but inexperienced and introspective character come alive -- and from the opening screens to the end Helen Baxendale did the job.
		There are lots of scenes of Cordelia thinking and worrying her way through the problem she is investigating.
	imdb.com /title/tt0138899 (240 words)

	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Sacrifice - TV.com
		Cordelia Gray inherits the detective agency she works for, after the death of her boss.
		Her first case is when she is hired by Ronald Callender, an eminent scientist, to investigate why his son, Cambridge University student Mark Callender, has committed suicide.
		She moves into the summer house where he was found hanged, and finds herself threatened.
	www.tv.com /episode/158124/summary.html (221 words)

	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (an Episode Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cordelia Gray goes undercover as a holiday relief at the Claircourt Park Hotel when the proprietor is accused by his wife of sexually harassing female staff.
		With the agency struggling, and now pregnant, Cordelia Gray welcomes a seemingly straightforward job.
		Now heavily pregnant, and facing an uncertain future, Cordelia Gray accepts a job from her an adversary, DCS Fergusson, who hires her to spy on his daughter's boyfriend, Tim Bolton, but then abruptly breaks the job off.
	epguides.com /UnsuitableJobforaWoman/guide.shtml (468 words)

	swanjun // soliloquy in blue
		An intriguing assignment, Cordelia Gray thought, and not a particularly arduous one.
		Some time after said brutal murder occurs, the narrative focus shifts away from Cordelia to that of the detectives from the town on shore who’ve come to investigate.
		It’s interesting to learn some details from their interviews, and also to see the way in which they view Cordelia, but I found it a little odd that the protagonist should be absent for such a significant period of time.
	www.flaminggeeks.com /swanjun/index.php?paged=3 (2772 words)

	Sept 2001 John R Pierce
		Cordelia receives a visit from Sir George Ralston, a baronet whose wife is the famous actress Clarissa Lisle.
		Clarissa is going to be the star of a production of The Duchess of Malfi that will take place in the small private theatre of a large house on an island off the English coast.
		Sir George engages Cordelia to accompany Clarissa to the island, ostensibly as her secretary, to ensure that no anonymous notes come to Clarissa’s attention to mar her performance.
	www.johnrpierce.com /se1p2.html (339 words)

	The Books: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He is found hanging by his neck, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a picture of a nude girl nearby.
		The official verdict is suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder, and he hires fledgling detective Cordelia Gray to investigate.
		As this determined young lady follows a twisting trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she soon reaches the conclusion that the nicest people can do the nastiest things-in a case that proves at every shocking turn to be An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/40/0446315176/index.html (266 words)

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		Luncheon to Miss Grau- I8S SARAH PEEL'S luncheon yes- terday, given In compliment to Miss Cordelia Gray and her guest.
		The guests invited to meet Mins Gray and Miss were Mrs.
		Fannie Gray wore blue crepe de Katherme Ghol-ttln was one of i-e attractive young women who wlstcd hor gown of pale blue taffetas.
	www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers1/na0010/476710/5263966.html (2371 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on P. D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman at Epinions.com
		James introduces one of her recurring characters Cordelia Gray, a young woman working as a private investigator.
		The case involves the apparent suicide of a young man who had left his studies at Cambridge University to take a job as a gardener.
		James writes very well, and, despite the sad premise of the story, the book has some very amusing humor.
	www.epinions.com /content_34899922564 (312 words)

	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman - Mystery Books
		They found him hanging by the neck, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a picture of a nude girl nearby.
		The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspected murdered, and hired fledgling detective Cordelia Gray of Pryde's Detective Agency, to investigate.
		Determined to solve the crime, Cordelia follows a twisting trail of shameful sins and guilty secrets that make her conclude
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art11998.asp (209 words)

	Movie Info for An Unsuitable Job for a Woman on MSN Movies
		After the suicide of her friend and employer, who has been teaching her to be a detective, Cordelia Gray (Pippa Guard) takes over his business and begins an investigation of the apparent suicide of the son of a businessman.
		When the suicide turns out to be murder, what she discovers disrupts the entire family and puts Cordelia's life in danger.
		This off-beat British film is a moody, entertaining thriller, much in the tradition of film noir, but with an unusual and determined female detective.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=15607 (152 words)

	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Summary: A rather loose adaptation of the P. James novel.
		Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency...
		User Comments: a lost and wonderful movie from former 'time out' film critic chris pettit.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0083263 (254 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 74190640
		Table of contents for Minor, Scales, Cottrell, and Gray families of Virginia, North Carolina, and Mississippi / compiled and edited by Martha Neville Lumpkin from records and information collected by various members of the family.
		112 JOHN GRAY FITCH 112 FRANK WALL, JR.
		AND LILLIAN LEWIS GRAY 113 LILLIAN LEWIS GRAY WALL, by Ann Wall Murdaugh and Lillian Wall Phillips 114 WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT OF LILLIAN GRAY AND FRANK WALL, JR.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy0606/74190640.html (216 words)

	P.D. James
		Adam Dalgliesh, a critically acclaimed poet and Scotland Yard commander, in London, England, is featured in:
		Cordelia Gray, a fledgling private investigator in London, England, is featured in:
		True crime book written with historian T.A. Critchley.
	www.stopyourekillingme.com /J_Authors/James_P-D.html (105 words)

	James K. Polk GRAY/Salina Cordelia SPEAKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born: 1 Jan 1869 at: Married: 21 Sep 1892 at: Died: 27 Jan 1965 at: Rose Hill, Virginia Father:Carlo Brittain GRAY Mother:Josephine Matilda BALL Other Spouses:
		Born: 22 Oct 1873 at: Died: 14 Dec 1963 at: Father:Timothy Sullens SPEAKS Mother:Orlena Virginia POWELL Other Spouses:
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