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Cover Her Face by P.D. James

September 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Well this series definitely intrigues me. I ended up reading a short story starring this character last year or the year before for Festive Tasks and then I ended up trying to start a stand alone with him and didn’t realize it wasn’t the first book. So I put it away and forget about reading this series until now. I have to say that P.D. James does a great job with all of the characters that are introduced, but the book starts off very slowly. […]

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Cover Her Face by PD James

August 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the first PD James novel, and by way of that fact, the first of the Adam Dalgliesh detective series. This is from an omnibus collection that also collect the second novel in the series A Mind to Murder, which I read a few months ago, and a later novel Shroud for a Nightingale. In the introduction to the collection James talks about why she chose these three novels: the first because she was able to produce a novel she felt worthy of publication, […]

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