Category Archives: P.D. James

>P.D. James, The Private Patient (2008)

> This police procedural is the forteenth in the Adam Dalgliesh series. I bought the book myself. My bait quotation has given you some kind of insight in the bleak childhood of Rhoda Gradwyn, the victim of the novel. The … Continue reading

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>Tuesday´s Special: P.D. James

> If I had to pick just one favourite detective, it would be very difficult for me to choose between Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh and Inspector Morse. I have spent so many pleasant hours in the company of these two … Continue reading

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>P.D. James, Death of an Expert Witness (1977)

>[Dansk titel: Mord på laboratoriet, 1979] This crime novel is the sixth in the Adam Dalgliesh series. Even though this story begins with a body in a clunch field, the main setting is Hoggatt´s, the Forensic Science Laboratory in the … Continue reading

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>P.D. James Revisited II

>As mentioned yesterday, Unnatural Causes takes place in Suffolk, in a small community where everybody knows everybody else. All the residents and weekend guests of Monksmere Head are writers of some kind; romance, crime, non-fiction, literary critics, plus the orphaned … Continue reading

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>P.D. James Revisited.

>My current read is an old Chief Inspector Dalgliesh novel. No, wait, Superintendent Dalgliesh. I have read it many years ago, but it is one of the few early works of the great P.D. James I didn´t own so I … Continue reading

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>P.D. James, Det du’r piger ikke til (1978)

>Forfatteren er formodentlig langt bedre kendt for sin Adam Dalgliesh-serie, men jeg synes, de to romaner med den kvindelige detektiv Cordelia Gray er dejlige og forfriskende. Dette er den første, hvor Cordelia helt uventet ´arver´ det detektivbureau, hun er medejer … Continue reading

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