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  <title><![CDATA[The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)]]></title>
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  <default_description>With all the qualities that P. D. James&#8217;s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery.

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell&#8217;s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring, long-standing facial scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week&#8217;s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset&#8217;s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She will never leave Cheverell Manor alive. When Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder &#8211; and a second death occurs &#8211; even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt arise.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">28</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">9</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)</original_title>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 26 13:58:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Opening Sentence: &quot;...On November the 21st, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley Street to keep a first appointment with her plastic surgeon,and there in a consulting room designed,so it appeared, to inspire co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33916297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41626756">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 12:41:38 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 24 11:14:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When you pick up a P.D. James mystery, you know that you are in the hands of a professional.  Cleanly plotted, meticulously detailed, characters revealed layer by layer, hers are the epitome of the &quot;British mysteries&quot; in the tradition of the great Agatha.  It is a tradition that I know and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41626756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38226248">
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 09:49:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 21:17:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a fan of PD James forever and was sure that with her age, The Ligththouse would be her last Dagliesh novel.  I was so happy to see that she had another story in her.  I rated this 4 stars as much because I love James and her wonderful language.  However, I didn't feel that it was her bes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38226248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52614430">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 14 05:58:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 07:07:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read a detective genre fiction book after a long time. An investigative reporter checks into a private clinic to have a scar removed and is murdered - it sounded like a good premise to work from. <br/><br/>I have to credit James, almost ninety, with continuing to write competent polic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52614430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39035974">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 11:12:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 07:38:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a reason P.D. James is a master of the well-worn English mystery genre, and The Private Patient is a good example of why. Superficially, this could come straight from Agatha Christie land -- a muckraking journalist checks into a country manor house that has been purchased by a plastic surgeo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39035974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38803705">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 08:37:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 08:51:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the three great post-modern talismans--race, gender, class--P.D. James has chosen class as the ongoing theme of her books, inteweaving discussions of the fine (or not so fine) distinctions shown by accent, birthplace and school into her terrific mysteries. <br/><br/>&quot;The Pivate Patient&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38803705">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39975162">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 12 16:05:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 16:10:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be so leisurely -- pages-long descriptions of car trips through the countryside, detailed listings of the stuff in every room -- that I had to force myself to finish.  But I'm giving it 3 stars because for God's sake, this woman is 88 YEARS OLD.  I can barely find my car keys and she...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39975162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38443399">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Homer, AK]]></location>        
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 07:07:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 20:06:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>Once, so far.</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I wrote this review for the Poisoned Pen's eNews:<br/><br/>What could be more English than a country house murder?  In The Private Patient P.D. James summons up the shades of Conan Coyle and Agatha Christie in murder most foul of a patient at a stately country manor turned medical clinic.  Means, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38443399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41173953">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nat]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 08:13:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I'm channeling my mother (who died last year).  She was an English teacher who loved to read P. D. James' mysteries.  When I saw this on the shelf at Borders, I thought of her and bought it.  Now I see why she enjoyed reading James' works.  She is an excellent writer, rich and visual.  Next ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41173953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47503107">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did I like this less than other PD James, or was I just swayed by Tad's hatred of it?  It was certainly slow moving.  The Private Patient is setting the reader up to accept Dalgliesh's retirement and, I assume, the end of the series.  And frankly, it left me not caring that this could be the end. ]]></body>
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    <review id="38638549">
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    <name><![CDATA[Migdalia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 16:15:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot get a PD James Dalgliesh book without becoming totally addicted to it.  I am never bored.  I am never without anticipation and questions, and I am always heartened at the fact that the investigators have the same questions I have or are filled with the same curiosity.  I will leave the plot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38638549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39381068">
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    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 05 11:54:41 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 05 11:57:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy this series, but I didn't think it was her best.  The plot seemed a bit convoluted and while she tied a lot of personal ends up (for the characters), the actual mystery wasn't entirely neat.  I suspect this may be the last in the series, although she doesn't specificaly say that.]]></body>
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    <review id="42074407">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 05:32:35 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 05:37:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A plastic surgery patient who is an investigative reporter is murdered at a private clinic, followed by the death of her young male friend at the same location.  The usual wonderful descriptions by the author with most suspects seeming to have something to hide and not being very likeable. There is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42074407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28811744">
    <user id="88106">
    <name><![CDATA[Elisha]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 30 17:45:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 14 11:01:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not James' best but still James! I liked the way she ended this novel. I did feel some of the extra information within the mystery was too much/padded. Also, Commander Dagliesh's life outside of the actual case felt disjointed but I still enjoyed the book overall.<br/><br/>Maybe it's me, but I fel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28811744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38057270">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 18 11:26:11 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 09:16:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Very consistent with the other Dalgliesh novels - I had to read this one a bit more slowly than usual because the author has taken a lot of time with her use of language. I will likely read this one again because the writing was so lovely and evocative.]]></body>
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    <review id="47283129">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 23 13:02:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adam Dalgliesh returns to solve the murder of Rhoda, an investigative reporter who goes to a lovely private clinic in the country to have an ugly scar removed from her face, a scar her drunken father inflicted upon her as a child and of which she said, &quot;I no longer have need of it.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47283129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43572537">
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    <body><![CDATA[Some mystery writers, like some main-stream novelists, get off to a slow start.  By the time they have established the setting and  introduced the characters, the reader is starting to mutter, &quot;OK, OK, get on with it.&quot;  Not so with P.D. James.  How's this for an opening sentence?   &quot;O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43572537">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 09:24:40 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[P. D. James is now in her 80s, yet she still continues to send Adam Dalgliesh out to solve murders. Dalgliesh, a detective who also writes poetry, is a dark and moody character, someone who, as an infant, survived the Blitz of London, even though his mother did not. It has occurred to me that Dalgli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42218394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Daisy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 07:39:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only seem to update when I didn't really like a book, but maybe I just want to warn everyone.  James started out as such a compelling mystery writer and her prose is still good, but her books have become more and more tedious over time.  She's become, I think, far too enamored of her own regular c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41949757">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 03:00:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read a PD James before and was expecting to be bowled over by a more thoughtful sort of take on the crime novel after reading and watching too many stories about maverick detectives who drink whisky and should have been sacked years ago. Unfortunately this book seemed to consist almost com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78293005">more...</a>]]></body>
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