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Loading... The Murder Room (2003)by P.D. James
None.  CasaBooks | Apr 28, 2013 |  I haven't read a P D James murder mystery in a while. This was a good story but not the best I've read. Double murder at the Dupayne museum with all the suspects either employees or members of the family. (  ) MaggieFlo | Apr 7, 2013 | It's hard to get better than this. Another gripping mystery with fully realized characters, evocative writing and a satisfying ending. (  ) FiberBabble | Mar 30, 2013 | In a museum devoted to England during the interwar years, there is a Murder Room, in which are gathered artifacts from famous homicides that took place during the interwar years. Naturally, the room plays a crucial role, both as setting and as backstory, when real-life murder comes to the museum. Scotland Yard is called into investigate under the leadership of Detective Adam Dalgliesh. As always, James delves deeply into the psyches of her characters--in this case, the museum's staff--uncovering not just motives and secrets, the stuff of any crime plot, but also the flesh and bone of personality. This is a classic detective story that is livened by the in depth character analysis.  tauruseducation | Mar 27, 2013 | P. D. James is so good - great style and plot, memorable characters. (  ) DowntownLibrarian | Jan 16, 2013 |
 The éminence grise of British detective fiction, James delivers another ruminative puzzler, generous in character, graceful in prose.  James writes with such ease and juggles her plots and characters with such control that none of this gets out of hand. . . Alas, James's efforts to inject suspense into Dalgliesh's romantic life are less effective. . . There is no mistaking P. D. James's latest mystery for the work of a younger writer. . . Her characters are confused by euros and annoyed by mobile phones. . . Despite her elegiac frame of mind, Ms. James has not lost her taste for a good throttling. It's a general rule of fiction that authors are happiest creating characters closest to their own age. This is because all fiction is broadly autobiographical. Male novelists in their early 20s create wincingly convincing teenagers but - by their 60s - are sketching adolescents who are merely embarrassing sexual fantasies. As an octogenarian novelist, James is showing similar difficulties of characterisation. . . I've never really got Dalgleish. His combination of policing skill and artistic sensibility - he's an acclaimed poet - has always struck a false note for me, especially given that he's so emotionally constrained. . . In The Murder Room, even his detective skills are more assumed than demonstrated. Several people, Dalgleish included, comment on his ability to get people to tell him things. Yet in this book, you have no idea why. All he seems to do is enter a room, ask a question and the admissions come thick and fast. . . Once she does begin, though, she doesn't relent until the genuinely chilling climax. Patrician, eccentric, but still a delight. Is contained in4 Titles - PD James - Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries Series - 1) The Murder Room - 2) A Certain Justice - 3) A Taste For Death by P.D. James Original sin; Death in holy orders; The murder room by P.D. James The Lighthouse, The Murder Room by P.D. James The Murder Room & Death In Holy Orders by P.D. James (2 Tradebacks) by P.D. James A Taste for Death; The Lighthouse; The Murder Room by P.D. James
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P. D. James and Adam Dalgliesh.
Good combo.
Have watched every PBS Mystery episode on these books, also.
Read in 2004. (