The Maul and the Pear Tree

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The Maul and the Pear Tree is a true crime book by P. D. James and T. A. Critchley about the Ratcliff Highway murders, published in 1971. According to publisher's blurb, it is "one of the most elegant exercises in literary historical detection since Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time.
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P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring her most iconic creation, policeman and poet Adam...

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