About this title: The terrifying truth about an eminent psychiatric clinic comes out when the administrative head is found horribly murdered. And in an explosive atmosphere of psychiatry, sex, and drugs, Dalgliesh has the uneviable task of finding a killer out to prove that the first murder was no Freudian slip.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446314800ISBN:0446314803
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some edge and corner wear. Tanned pages. Tight binding. Some cover creases. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780446313957ISBN:0446313955
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Popular Library
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780445031548ISBN:0445031549
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback Pages tanning Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear. Good average reading copy. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine has some creases. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade B reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Edition: Warner Books ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446314800ISBN:0446314803
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. This is the 1987 edition. Cover and text show age and shelf wear. Black cover with different illustration. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 10th Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780446314800ISBN:0446314803
Description: Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Popular Library
Date Published: 1976
Description: Good. Paperback. Cover shows some wear to edges, minor spine creasing. Pages are sunned to edges, no markings. Binding is excellent. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780446313957ISBN:0446313955
Description: Good. -1st Printing--256 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has only light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
"After skipping around among P.D. James' cozy police procedurals, reading four of the more recent books, I'm starting at the beginning and working my way through. This one isn't markedly better than Cover Her Face, her first. All the suspects, colleagues at a psychiatric clinic, naturally either hated or disliked the murderee, or stood to benefit from her death. James writes cynically and concescendingly - she creates an unlikeable group (except for Dalgliesh and Martin, obviously); class differences and Agatha Christie loom large (maybe this is unavoidable in 60s Britain), and the patients on LSD therapy all make this seem like a faintly ridiculous time capsule. I did find it kind of charming that Dalgliesh's first book of poetry is undergoing its third printing, and he is being feted because the poems "happened to catch a public mood.""
"It's truly remarkable how much more completely an Adam Dalgliesh novel, and how much better than the first Adam Dalgliesh book, A Mind to Murder is. The author seems really to have found her modus operandi with this one. An excellent story filled with rich characters and the Dalgliesh thread to hold it all together. (This is the one where murder occurs at a psychiatric clinic in London.)"
"This book in the series was definitely not as good as Shroud for a Nightingale, which apparently comes after this one, maybe I should have began the series at the beginning. I thought the end of this one didn't make all that much sense, and the motives to me didn't come together after the reveal. But I still enjoyed it and thought it was well done. I have added a mystery shelf which is sorta cool. I think I will try to read the rest of the series. However, reading these books makes me never want to work in the medical field, all full of murderers it seems."
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