A Mind To Murder
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816130573 (0816130574)
Publish date: May 1st 1980
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Pages no: 437
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Female Authors,
Suspense,
Murder Mystery
Series: Adam Dalgliesh (#2)
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...