Tag: p-d-james
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“I’m no Captain Wentworth”: P.D. James’s Dalgliesh in Love
The Murder Room is one of my favourite P.D. James mysteries, although many other readers are less rapturous. Kirkus Reviews complained about “a plot less ineluctable than her best” but praises the intriguing cast of characters and–as always in James–the extraordinary sense of place. The novel is set largely at the Dupayne Museum, which explores…
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Spring Book Haul
I don’t typically accumulate a substantial number of mysteries when I’m already in the midst of reading several new books. And I need to finish up Eliza Reid’s Death on the Island (with thanks to NetGalley for the preview) and Janice Hallett’s art school-email mystery, which manages to make an LMS messaging tool interesting. But…
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Agatha Christie and the Character of the Victim
I’ve been on a Christie binge, and yet once more. I’m re-reading Evil Under the Sun while alternating 4.50 to Paddington and Dead Man’s Folly as evening viewing. Interspersed with The Magpie Murders, which is terrific, but moves along at a very stately pace. There’s a Japanese adaptation of 4.50 to Paddington that I’d love…
