About this title: Warner celebrates New York Times bestselling author P.D. James with these new editions of her classic crime novels. In what Publishers Weekly calls "a literate, intelligent, intriguing novel of suspense", perennial James character Adam Dalgliesh must find the hidden pattern in a seemingly senseless series of slayings.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446315029ISBN:0446315028
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: Warner Books Inc
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446315029ISBN:0446315028
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: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Not Avail
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780446348249ISBN:0446348244
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: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Not Avail
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780446348249ISBN:0446348244
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 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: Warner Books
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780446315029ISBN:0446315028
Description: Very Good. 0446315028 Great condition paperback book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Not Avail
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780446348249ISBN:0446348244
Description: Very Good. 0446348244 Great condition paperback book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Not Avail
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780446348249ISBN:0446348244
Description: Very Good. 0446348244 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
"I actually thought this was a pretty good mystery, but I didn't like the prolonged conversation between Julius and Adam Dalgliesh at the end. Since I knew Adam was going to survive, there wasn't really any tension about that and on audio it just seemed to go on forever - practically a whole disc on how to murder Dalgliesh and get away with it. The whole thing made me feel queasy and didn't really add to the plot."
"I love P.D. James, but I wasn't crazy about this one. Because this novel takes place in a nursing home of sorts, the characters are all wracked with physical deformities. Their loss of limbs and bodily functions has left an emptiness that is so filled with self-hatred, spite, and anger that I found many of them off-putting and difficult to read. But then, that's the point, isn't it.
P.D. James is great because she's always dealing with some major philosophical issue, and in this book, she was dealing with our responses to the grotesque. She asks us to consider the limits of the physical body, and the value that we place on wellness. At what point, she allows Dalgleish to ask, does one's physical ailments become too much to bear. When does one throw in the towel? As readers, turned off by these characters--some evil and hateful, even with their broken bodies--we must question how the body impacts our ability to hear and value another, how it subtly impacts our estimation of their worth.
Like all James, well worth the read: thought-provoking and challenging, regardless of whether or not we ultimately love it."
"I liked this better than some of the other ones, but not enough to say I really liked it. But for me, three stars is good! This one takes place at a residential facility for people with chronic degenerative diseases. It's not a very happy place, and the guy who runs it is not a nice character -- compassionate and manipulative at the same time. P. D. James seems to like seaside settings. Also from time to time she borrows phrases and even a title from Dorothy Sayers. "Seeing as he saved me from (name disastrous situation here), I am naturally bound to find him delightful." ". . . the rich and amusing (name male character here). . . ". Unnatural Death. Is this intentional or unintentional? Or are both writers borrowing from a common stock of standard English phraseology?"
"Despite being written several years ago, this mystery still holds suspense until the final pages. It is also a great way to increase your vocabulary as P.D. James makes full use of the English Language."
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