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This was P.D. James' first novel and introduces her detective Adam Dalgliesh. Very little is revealed about Dalgliesh's character in this first novel - there are some hints but he has no scenes away from his role as the detective in charge of the case.
The book is set up like a Golden Age Detective novel in that it takes place in a country house with a closed circle of suspects and the classic scene in the last chapter where the detective gathers everyone together.
Because everyone knows that it' ...more
The book is set up like a Golden Age Detective novel in that it takes place in a country house with a closed circle of suspects and the classic scene in the last chapter where the detective gathers everyone together.
Because everyone knows that it' ...more
I recently read a P.D. James book that was #14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series and really enjoyed it so I decided to start the series from the beginning. Cover Her Face is book 1 in the series and it is a very traditional Agatha Christie-esque style mystery, locked room, secluded manor house, upstairs-downstairs tensions, a victim with many enemies, questionable alibis for many of the suspects and the parlour reveal scene at the end. This book is definitely a example of the classism and morality of
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