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  <title><![CDATA[The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James&amp;#8217;s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff.  Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime.  When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room--and is preparing to kill again--Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.D. James]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a couple of things I'll probably never be able to figure out about the 'Adam Dalgliesh' series P.D. James writes. The first is the order in which I'm supposed to read them, and the second is why his last name is Dog Leash when I hear it in my head. I got this book from the library, which h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1815396">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 06:28:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 06:31:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the book was bad and struggled to finish it. It wasn't just that it was not to my taste (and I read a lot of crime novels). But what annoyed me was that it got away with so much that would have had any unpublished author immediately flung onto the reject pile.<br/><br/>It seems that once y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44840282">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[James, P.D.  THE MURDER ROOM.  (2003).  *****.  Again we meet up with Commander Adam Dalgliesh as he solves the mysterious deaths of two different victims at a museum.  The museum is the Dupayne, a museum dedicated to the years between the wars, with rooms celebrating different aspects of their hist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51129646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65152302">
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    <name><![CDATA[Starling]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 12:23:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 06:08:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is unusual for me to give any book 5 stars. It has to be more than a book I've enjoyed and even more than a book I might re-read. Mostly I give the books I enjoy 4 stars. To some extent I'm reacting to the bad reviews this book has received from people who did not understand what they were pickin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65152302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54001445">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[P.D. James fans, smart mystery fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 26 06:19:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 29 17:32:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Murder Room of the title is located in the Dupayne Museum in London, and commemorates some of the most fantastic and lurid murders in history.  Through a chance meeting, Adam Dalgliesh visits with an acquaintance, but is called back soon after to investigate a series of murders.  The first murde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54001445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63564631">
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    <location><![CDATA[Mansfield, Nottingham, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 15 05:15:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 23 08:36:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A reasonable enough mystery, but not top-notch, and with a very contrived feel. What are the chances that an innocent motorist leaving the scene of a copy-cat crime would just happen to say the exact same words that the murderer in the original crime did? The whole book has a similar air of unrealit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63564631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72071170">
    <user id="1381751">
    <name><![CDATA[Rachel]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 21 20:17:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 20:20:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still like P.D. James, although this wasn't my favorite of those I've read. It's more contemporary than the others I've read (since it's a recent novel), but it does still have that classic murder mystery &quot;charm.&quot; Basically, Adam Dalgliesh and co. are called in to solve a series of murde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72071170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64994128">
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    <name><![CDATA[Virginia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 26 07:26:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh I shouldn't give this a four star but I do admire P.D. James so much.  She is writing with the same extraordinary skill and high literary standard as ever and she is over eighty.  Her books have the unmistakable British patina and her references are cultured as well as up to date.  I donm't know ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64994128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42117658">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nick]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[PD James is simply the best mystery stylist around, I forgot what a difference great writing, characterization, and plotting means to a good mystery. I'm not a fan typically of the British 'locked-room' style that follows in the footsteps of Agathe Christie, it always seems a bit pat for my tastes, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42117658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="961036">
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    <name><![CDATA[Felicity]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[P.D. James is hailed as the current queen of the murder mystery, and as an excellent writer as well as plotter; based on this book, the plaudits are justified. The characters are complex and intriguing; the mystery satisfyingly difficult; and the hero, Commander Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/961036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46110480">
    <user id="1956252">
    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bellingham, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 21:34:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 11 21:34:28 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me some time to get into as James is heavy on description and detail and I just wanted her to get on with the story. She won me over though somewhere around two-thirds of the way through. I began to appreciate what at the beginning I found annoying. She definitely has her own style of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46110480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17416316">
    <user id="769943">
    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People interested in books set in modern day England]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 09 21:06:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 17 11:30:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[PD James strength as an author seems to lie in her character portraits rather than her ability to write a tight, interesting mystery.  The characters in this book were well crafted, interesting, and interesting.<br/><br/>The mystery, well, not so much.  The ending was one of the obvious resolution...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17416316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45126376">
    <user id="33296">
    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, this is the fourth book by P.D.  James that I've read in the past month or two, and I feel about it exactly as I felt about the first three; engaging and intelligent writing style, well-drawn characters, compulsively readable, and a crappy ending.  Why are her endings so blah?  They're so anti-c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45126376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58130056">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[P.D. James is a superb mystery writer.  She sets the stage in both scene and characterization before the murder is even introduced.  And then she weaves her plot with logic and detail.  But what I love most about her is her powers of description.  How many mystery writers can desribe entering cathed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58130056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46011723">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 18 23:53:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really want to be able to give 1/2 stars.  I enjoyed this more than the large number of books I've read recently and given 3 stars, but not as much as the 4 star books.<br/><br/>For me, this book was a somewhat uneven listen.  Parts of it were quite compelling, and other parts were not keeping m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46011723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59999455">
    <user id="1885655">
    <name><![CDATA[Anne]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was readable  - not fabulous but ok. I didn't really work out who the killer was as it could have been any of them which was a little disappointing. <br/>I either like the culprit to be obscure and for me to work out who it is or I like to be shocked by who it is. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a solid read. great for mornings on the elliptical. sure, perhaps not the most challenging of books, but as mysteries go, i enjoyed it, and who can resist a murder set in modern day england? plus the writing's pretty decent for what some could consider a beach read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really masterful mystery -- it's not for nothing that P.D. James is one of the most highly regarded mystery writers out there. It's interesting to compare this to some of her earlier mysteries; most of the other Adam Dalgliesh mysteries I've read in the past are among the earliest, and whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15569352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit the first 200 pages were long and boring but as soon as the plot kicked in it was very hard for me to put the book down. The intrigue was captivating and at the end I can honestly say I enjoyed the novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 'Sunday Times (London)' describes Ms. James work better than I can. &quot;P.D. James is recognized not only as Britain's most successful living writer of crime fiction, but its most literate exponent.&quot; I rarely agree with reviews printed on the back covers of books but in this case I do. Re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/937955">more...</a>]]></body>
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