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Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)

[library audiobook, plot summary elsewhere]A disappointment, after Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Maybe I have to read, or listen to, the real Pride and Prejudice to fairly judge these as more than a spoofing entertainment. The reader was pretty flat. The Elizabeth Bennett character had no colo...

Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) by P.D. James
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The Private Patient (2008)

I read this book because the author has just died (RIP), but it is not her first book that I read, but it could be the last because her endless descriptions of landscapes, characters and afternoon tea, tired me, even if the plots are well built. Maybe I should be English to appreciate fully her l...

The Private Patient (2008) by P.D. James
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Todo Lo Que Se Sobre Novela Negra (2009)

Interesante ensayo sobre la novela detectivesca, especialmente sobre la Época Dorada inglesa. Probablemente un poco más de análisis sobre las vertientes extranjeras (Simenon merece màs que un párrafo, a mi entender) y modernas del género hubieran añadido interés al libro. No obstante, hay que rec...

Todo Lo Que Se Sobre Novela Negra (2009) by P.D. James
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Original Sin (2005)

This is the ninth book in the Adam Dalgliesh detective series in which the Commander is called in to investigate a murder at a prestigious publishing house called Peverell Press. The publisher’s offices are housed in an ornate Venetian Palace on the Thames called Innocent House, a building with a...

Original Sin (2005) by P.D. James
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Unnatural Causes (2002)

There is a scene about midway through this book that if you squint just enough you might convince yourself could have come right out of a Raymond Chandler novel. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James' contribution to the ranks of famous literary sleuths, is in a seedy Soho nightclub interrog...

Unnatural Causes (2002) by P.D. James
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A Mind to Murder (2001)

A Mind to Murder was originally published in 1963. It is just old enough that it appears quaint and charming rather than out dated. This book takes place three years after Cover Her Face, the first book in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, and Dalgliesh is now a published poet. Through happy ...

A Mind to Murder (2001) by P.D. James
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A Taste for Death (2005)

A just-retired, blue-blooded government minister and a tramp have their throats cut in a church in James's well plotted, nicely paced mystery. I'm a big fan of James, and of her lovely Dalgliesh in particular. She allows Dalgliesh and his subordinate, Constable Kate Miskin, to be thoughtful, we...

A Taste for Death (2005) by P.D. James
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Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography (2001)

Time to Be in Earnest: a fragment of autobiography is P. D. James's response to Dr. Johnson's advice that seventy-seven is "a time to be in earnest." The much celebrated and beloved writer of mystery novels has created a luminous memoir of one year of her life. During the course of that year she ...

Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography (2001) by P.D. James
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Cover Her Face (2001)

PD James, Baronesa de Holland Park, es uno de los grandes nombres vivientes de la novela detectivesca junto con Ruth Rendell, Baronesa de Babergh. Con una multifacética carrera que incluyó participaciones en el ministerio del interior británico y en la mesa directiva de la BBC, James encarna a la...

Cover Her Face (2001) by P.D. James
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The Black Tower (2001)

I can't recall whether it was The Black Tower or a different book by P.D.James which was recommended to me among a sea of other "crime" books that should absolutely be read by anyone who likes the genre.Perhaps it was a different book. I hope it was a different book. It's more than possible I was...

The Black Tower (2001) by P.D. James
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Devices and Desires (2002)

Every time I read a P. D. James novel, I wonder why I don't read them more often. They are the reading equivalent of luxuriating in a deep, soft, pillow-top bed and eating chocolate covered cherries. I love James' writing, her insistence that the mystery genre can be literary and still adhere to ...

Devices and Desires (2002) by P.D. James
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The Children of Men (2006)

Ugh! I don't like the cover of this book (the one showing on this page). Don't get me wrong, I like Clive Owen, and the 2006 movie is not too shabby but it does not have much to do with the original text apart from the basic premise; and Theo the protagonist of the movie is the polar opposite of ...

The Children of Men (2006) by P.D. James
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A Certain Justice (2006)

Please, somebody tell me that this is the worst book written by P. D. James, because if it isn't then people are even more gullible than I think. A scene can be handled sparely, as here, "I drove to the store and got the evening paper," or it can be given in pages of detail, describing the need f...

A Certain Justice (2006) by P.D. James
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Death of an Expert Witness (2002)

Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learns that there is more to human beings than meets the eye...

Death of an Expert Witness (2002) by P.D. James
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Death in Holy Orders (2002)

Commander Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard has been asked by Sir Alred Treeves to take a closer look into the suspicious death of his adopted son Ronald, who suffocated under the cliffs near St. Anselms by an avalanche of sand. Was it an accident, suicide, or murder? Dalgliesh, the son of a re...

Death in Holy Orders (2002) by P.D. James
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The Skull Beneath the Skin (2001)

Publicado en http://lecturaylocura.com/la-calavera...La calavera bajo la piel de P.D James. El recuerdo a una gran dama del crimenEl pasado 27 de noviembre del 2014 nos dejó Phyllis Dorothy James, mundialmente conocida por P.D. James. La británica, nacida en Oxford en 1920, fue uno de los mejores...

The Skull Beneath the Skin (2001) by P.D. James
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (2001)

It's interesting when crime writers have a clear lead character that they love, and decide to branch out into a different one along similar genre lines. Val McDermid transitioned from reckless PI Kate Brannigan to impotent psychologist Tony Hill and sexually frustrated Carol Jordan, and here Jame...

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (2001) by P.D. James
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Shroud for a Nightingale (2001)

At several points the main character is discussing the case with his assistant and, despite the fact they've already talked about the evidence and what they think and he's the current viewpoint character and we follow both of them through everything important they do, their important deductions a...

Shroud for a Nightingale (2001) by P.D. James
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The Murder Room (2004)

A reasonable enough mystery, but not top-notch, and with a very contrived feel. What are the chances that an innocent motorist leaving the scene of a copy-cat crime would just happen to say the exact same words that the murderer in the original crime did? The whole book has a similar air of unrea...

The Murder Room (2004) by P.D. James
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800 Years of Women's Letters (Biography, Letters & Diaries) (2000)

Few books offer such an historical panorama of women's issues in such a small space. A remarkable voyage through time, cultures, and ways of being female.

800 Years of Women's Letters (Biography, Letters & Diaries) (2000) by P.D. James

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