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In Which the Serial Killer Is Besides the Point

Devices and Dexires: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by PD James

March 30, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, of the Scotland Yard, has just inherited a converted windmill from a favorite aunt, situated on a remote stretch of the Norfolk coast.  He has fond memories of visits there as a child, and is looking to escape publicity for a bit after having published a book of poetry.  Of course, it turns out to be a busman’s holiday, except he isn’t the one investigating the series of murders in the area.  In fact, technically he could be considered a possible suspect.  […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Adam Dalgleish mystery, Local politics, Norfolk countryside, Nuclear power plant, pd james, serial killer, Windmills

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Adam Dalgleish mystery, Local politics, Norfolk countryside, Nuclear power plant, pd james, serial killer, Windmills ·
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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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The first time I got drunk was on Elijah’s wine.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Field Guide to Getting Lost – 4/5 Stars I wonder about whether this book could be translated as so much of the languaging that happens here (to borrow from Heidegger, someone else whose writing is quite difficult to translate) involves associative and impressionistic wandering often based in a kind of almost punning. There’s a moment late in the book, to spoil a great point, about how in English to be “lost” can happen in both time and space. And that doubling there really speaks […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: a field guide to getting lost, pd james, Rebecca Solnit, the year 1000, Valerie Hansen

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:576 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: a field guide to getting lost, pd james, Rebecca Solnit, the year 1000, Valerie Hansen ·
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The scope of the short story is inevitably restricted.

The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by PD James

September 4, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a small collection of PD James stories that came out or was reprinted a few years after her death. It’s interesting to me that it’s packaged as “The Mistletoe Murder” in that for one, that’s not much of a Christmas story, and also, it’s the least good of the stories in the collection. She begins with a small introduction about the short story and I was thinking about it as I read the rest. She talks about the ways in which the mystery […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: pd james, the mistletoe murder

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:502 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: pd james, the mistletoe murder ·
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It is probable that at least one of the guests was wholly happy.

Cover Her Face by PD James

August 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the first PD James novel, and by way of that fact, the first of the Adam Dalgliesh detective series. This is from an omnibus collection that also collect the second novel in the series A Mind to Murder, which I read a few months ago, and a later novel Shroud for a Nightingale. In the introduction to the collection James talks about why she chose these three novels: the first because she was able to produce a novel she felt worthy of publication, […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: cover her face, pd james

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:453 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cover her face, pd james ·
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She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it.

A Mind to Murder by PD James

April 17, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So the only PD James book I’ve read before this one was The Children of Men, and while I did like that one for a lot of reasons, it’s hardly preparatory to read a one-off sci fi novel 30 years into a writer’s career to try to figure out what their mystery writing is like. So this one came across my Overdrive, and even though it’s the second in the series, I figured it was close enough. It’s a lot like the Martin Beck novels […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a mind to murder, pd james

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:193 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a mind to murder, pd james ·
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