Books by P.D. James
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review 1: Loved the precise manner of diction of the British Detective story. In a few short chapters you revel in all the detectives you have come to know and love, the authors, both male and female who wrote with distinction and advanced the stories and the genre. PD James, herself a mas...
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review 1: I started reading this in the middle of the night when I couldn't get to sleep so perhaps that coloured my view, but I didn't take to this at all. Of course some re-hashing of Pride and Prejudice was necessary, so that those who hadn't read P&P had the back story, but it was just...
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review 1: For what feels like it may be the last of P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh mysteries, she takes us to the classic location for a mystery novel: An English country estate. Being James and being set in a more modern era, though, there are variations.Cheverell Manor had been in the fami...
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review 1: A friend gave me this book as a gift a couple of years ago and I just got around to reading it (the reading pile is high!) last week. As a person who has read most of P.D. James' mystery novels, I expected something long and complex. This book is short and simple — but simple in ...