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The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)

P.D. James

Start date: December 1, 2020

Finish date: December 31, 2020

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Why we're reading this: Last in our year-long Adam Dalgliesh challenge.
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Jun 21, 2017 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-murder-crime-21st-century

An undercurrent in PD James Adam Dalgleish novels is that most people are lonely, living their life in neat, compartmentalised boxes & only occasionally coming out to interact with their fellow man.

This was a wonderful mystery about murders at a fictitious London museum, The DuPayne. A lot of clever twists & turns (including a red herring that had me convinced I had guessed the murderer!)Maybe a little too much about the minutiae in the (mostly lonely and/or solitary) cha ...more

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Mar 17, 2019 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: p-d-james

I read this almost cover to cover. An intriguing mystery with lots of red herrings and suspects. There. Are also clues in the text which I complete missed. The Dupayne museum on Hampstead Heath with its murder room of murders past.

The dysfunctional Dupayne family. Marcus, Caroline and Neville. Odd staff. A gruesome murder and Adam Dalgliesh on the case. The build up to the murder is well done and everyone appears to have a motive for murder. Ryan, the Dupayne’s, the curator, Tally, Muriel, a my ...more

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