An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job For A Woman is the title of a 1972 detective novel by P. D. James.

It features her detective Cordelia Grey who featured in this and in The Skull Beneath The Skin. Cordelia inherited a detective agency and from there took on her first murder case.

A television series starring Helen Baxendale as Cordelia and Annette Crosbie as Edith Sparshott was made in 1997 and 1999 and based in part upon the book.