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In her foreword PD James notes that this work is fiction, the forensic laboratory in which it is set near Ely is completely fictional, and that no such place with such a unpleasant collection of people could possibly exist. Well I am sure such places can be found, but it makes a superb backdrop for an excellent police procedural novel. Adam Dalgleish is literally helicoptered in from the Met to deal with the murder of an forensic scientist who has been done to death with a mallet in his own lab.
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Death of An Expert Witness by P.D. James is the sixth Adam Dalgliesh novel. This one concerns the staff and security forces of a forensics lab. It has the appearances of a locked room mystery except in this case a “locked lab facility”. Dalgliesh has to sort through a plethora of suspects with varying motives for dispatching the unlikeable, but pitiable Dr. Lorrimer. I have been reading my way through the Adam Dalgliesh series and I would have to say of the ones I have read so far this was not m
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