# “Somewhere there lay a dead body” by P.D. James

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- Published: 2008-08-19T08:02:05-05:00
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“Commander Adam Dalgliesh was not unused to being urgently summoned to non-scheduled
meetings with unspecified people at inconvenient times, but usually with one purpose
in common: he could be confident that somewhere there lay a dead body awaiting his
attention.”

–P. D. James, _The Lighthouse_ (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 3.

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