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Who’s Up For a Field Trip to the Murder Room?

The Murder Room by PD James

January 1, 2023 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

The Dupayne is a unique private (and fictional!) museum located on the Hempstead Heath that is dedicated to the interwar years in Britain.  Located in a formerly stately house, most of it is dedicated to archives and is dreadfully scholarly, but there is one room upstairs set aside to highlight the most sensational murders of the period, AKA, the Murder Room.  Needless to mention, it is especially a hit on local field trips.  Who wants to check out the box that a murder victim got […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery Tagged With: Adam Dalgliesh #2, British detective work, Grand Manor murder mysteries, Interwar historical relics, murder most foul, pd james, There's never just one murder

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Mystery · Tags: Adam Dalgliesh #2, British detective work, Grand Manor murder mysteries, Interwar historical relics, murder most foul, pd james, There's never just one murder ·
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Pretty Easy to Figure out Guilty Party & Flow Needed Improved

A Mind to Murder by P.D. James

October 7, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Not too much to say about this one. I thought it was a solid mystery for the second book in the Adam Dalgliesh series. I just found myself getting bored after a while since it was really obvious who the murderer was (at least to me). There are some other secrets that are spilled, but other than a couple of major ones at the end, none of the rest had much to do with anything I thought. I do think the flow could have been […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Adam Dalgliesh #2, P.D. James

Classic's CBR11 Review No:249 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Adam Dalgliesh #2, P.D. James ·
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