An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (novel)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the title of a detective novel by English writer P. D. James and of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel. It was published in 1972 by Faber and Faber in the UK and by Charles Scribner's Sons in the US.

The book features private detective Cordelia Gray, the protagonist of both this title and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982). It is noted for introducing a new type of female detective at the start of the feminist era.