by P.D. James
Not too much to say about this one. I thought it was a solid mystery for the second book in the Adam Dalgliesh series. I just found myself getting bored after a while since it was really obvious who the murderer was (at least to me). There are some other secrets that are spilled, but other than a co...
Although there were obvious clues that were shrouded by other factors, these factors were successful enough to distract the detective but not me.
It's not always the least likely suspect.
More 3 1/2 stars. This is a reread from a long time ago and I'd forgotten the ending. Sometimes we are too clever for our own good. Dalgliesh learns this lesson the hard way in this clever murder mystery set in a has been posh psychiatric clinic. James does set up Dalgliesh as this dark, brooding, d...
here's a little story for you... so a famous San Francisco lobbyist - a lively raconteur, a darling of the media, and an infamously debauched homosexual - had a birthday celebration. because this was a man who helped build the careers of many politicians, his birthday party was a rather public affai...
I have almost completed this series and am going back and writing my reviews. I guess the thing that I would say about PD James is that she is a good writer, but not a "pop" writer..her mysteries are comfortable reads, yet most are forgettable.
Not quite as good as Cover Her Face, but entertaining all the same.
[These notes were made in 1983:]. I have seen blurbs which hail P.D. James as the new Dorothy L. Sayers, but she's not really terribly like Sayers, altho' her detective's a poet. Here is no running undercurrent of literary allusion of the sort that characterizes Sayers' style so well. The emphasis...
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