by P.D. James
bookshelves: summer-2010, published-1972, mystery-thriller, britain-england, play-dramatisation Read on August 01, 2010 An eminent scientist hires the female detective to discover why his son committed suicide. Stars Judi Bowker and Anna Massey Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:00pm Sunday 1st August ...
I'm of two minds about this book. There are parts I liked and others I disliked quite a bit. Which would explain why it took me so long to finish. This is a reread but I had no memories of reading it although I know I have read it during my binge of P.D. James way back when A Taste for Death came ou...
This was my 4th PD James novel. The protagonist of this book happened to be Miss Cordelia Gray, unlike the other three, where the protagonist was Adam Dalgleish, James’s much celebrated policeman. I am not a big fan of P.D.James as I find her book too literary for my taste. I hate when the author of...
An engaging detective story, with an intelligent heroine who doesn't drive you up in the wall in any way. The plot wasnt too predictable, and the prose was brilliant for this genre (admittedly, havent read too much crime fiction. Well, almost none outside Christie.)
An eminent scientist hires the female detective to discover why his son committed suicide. Stars Judi Bowker and Anna Massey Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:00pm Sunday 1st August 2010Duration:60 minutesCredits:Annette CrosbieGemma JonesHelen BaxendaleLeigh LawsonJulian Rhind-TuttAndrew Bicknell
Enjoyable, if weirdly conservative in its underpinnings (beware radicals!). I always get a little thrill from interconnected novels (in a series or otherwise). 13 ways of looking at Adam Dalgliesh.
Fantastic - I wish she'd written more than two Cordelia Gray mysteries . . .
[These notes were made in 1988:]. I thought I might not like this James as much as some others because it does not star her detective Adam Dalgliesh. But in fact Dalgliesh is a sort of ghostly presence throughout: he was the mentor of the business partner of the young woman, Cordelia Gray, who is i...
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