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Title: A Mind to Murder by P.D. James ISBN: 0-7432-1958-9 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: another good PD James mystery
Comment: A Mind To Murder was another well written mystery by James. Although the language was often difficult to understand, it added a special element to the story.(...but keep a dictionary near by). This mystery, like many of James' works, starred Adam Dalgleish as the detective trying to uncover a mystery...this time at a clinic in London. As always, James also adds a surprising twist at the end of the mystery...an enjoyable and exciting read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Early James, still a cut above the rest (no pun intended).
Comment: P.D. James's second Dalgliesh novel, A Mind to Murder was originally written in 1963. The preoccupations of the time are visible in the book-- changing social mores, counseling for failing marriages, disillusioned young artists, and experimental psychological treament. The Steen clinic makes an excellent backdrop to both explore these issues and to set the scene for murder.
When the correct and absolute Enid Bolam is found stabbed in the basement of the Steen outpatient clinic, Dalgliesh needs to find who killed her-- was it someone looking to the future or to the past?
_A Mind To Murder_ isn't as smooth or as perfect as some of James' later work, but is still an excellent mystery and well worth the time to read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good as I was expecting but tolerable...
Comment: I've heard a great deal of hype about PD James, but I was disappointed in this one. The details are a little muddled, there is a strange and unexplained transition in the inspector's investigation towards the end of the book, and the writing itself is not engaging. Agatha Christie at her weakest is better than this. Still, it's somewhat of a page-turner and I will be reading another PD James book soon just to give her another chance. James has the right idea with this plot but just doesn't carry it off somehow.
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Title: Cover Her Face by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219570 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Unnatural Causes by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219597 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219600 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Black Tower by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219619 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Taste for Death by P.D. James ISBN: 0345430581 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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