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Cordelia Gray
Cordelia Gray is the protagonist of P. D. James's ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'' and of ''The Skull Beneath the Skin''. Cordelia Gray is young woman〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cordelia Gray: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman )〕 who works as a private detective in London, having inherited the detective agency "Pryde" on the death of her boss, Bernie Pryde, who committed suicide.
==Fictional character biography==
Cordelia lost her mother an hour after birth. Her father Redvers, a Marxist traveling poet and revolutionary, didn't really care about his daughter, so Cordelia had many adoptive parents, and from six to eight years old she lived in a cottage in Remford with Mrs Gibson and her children. At eleven, she was confused with another C. Gray and won a scholarship to the Convent of Infant Jesus, where she stayed for six years. Then Redvers took her away from the convent, and they started traveling in Germany and Italy with Mr Gray's revolutionary friends. During their wandering, Cordelia worked as their maid, cook, bellhop and nurse.
Six months later, Mr. Gray died of a heart disease in Rome. After his death, Cordelia returned to England and became the secretary of the private detective Bernie G. Pryde, and later his partner in investigations. Two months later, Pryde was diagnosed with cancer and committed suicide. Instead of selling the detective agency off, Cordelia decided to keep it open, helped by the young aspiring actor Bevis and the old secretary Mrs. Maudsley. Despite dealing with cases involving murders and threats, the agency becomes specialized in searching for missing animals.
At the conclusion of ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'', Cordelia Gray meets James's other detective Adam Dalgliesh. In ''A Taste for Death'' it is mentioned that they have been seen dining together. Cordelia is also referred to at the end of another Dalgliesh novel, ''The Black Tower'':
Daniel asked (Dalgliesh ):
"Is he conscious?"
"Barely. Your chap in there says he's been quoting ''King Lear''. Something about Cordelia anyway..."〔P.D. James. 1975. ''The Black Tower''. New York: Warner Books. Paperback, page 283.〕
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