Books : Cover Her Face (Adam Dagliesh Mystery Series #1)
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by: P. D. James
Binding: Audio Cassette
EAN: 9780745160658
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 0745160654
Label: Chivers Audio Books
Manufacturer: Chivers Audio Books
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1996-01
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Sales Rank: 2450388
Studio: Chivers Audio Books
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Product Description:
When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is. **MASS MARKET PAPER**
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Rating:  - PD James' first
Cover Her Face starts with an introduction to the characters and establishing motives to kill the victim, who in this case is Sally Jupp, a housemaid who likes to keep secrets. Sally is an unwed mother (scandalous!!!) who has been given a job with the Maxies. The morning after Dr. Stephen Maxie proposes to her, she is found dead in her room, brutally strangled, and possibly drugged.
Call in Inspector Adam Dalgleish to root out the doer of this dastardly deed! There is a locked door, ... Read More
Rating:  - Not overly exciting
After all the praise P.D. James has received, I wanted to give her books a try. I began at the beginning with her first novel. Cover Her Face is a pretty good read, but lets through that it is an early work of the author. The story entails one crime only, the murder of the house-maid. No other cases or even significant side stories of the main characters are present. This makes the novel differ from many more recent mysteries I have read. Fortunately, the ending is a surprise.
The book ... Read More
Rating:  - Rubbish..
This has to be her worst novel. The characterization of the victim is so poorly developed and unbelievable that it is almost ludicrous. It seems the victim played with people's feelings and that eventually leads to her death. In fact, it seemed to me that James read lot of Christie and wrote this mish-mash as a tribute, perhaps?
Rating:  - The first P. D. James book
I must confess to never really being a P. D. James fan. Several years ago I began to read one of her books (can't remember which one) and found it so dull that I put it down and didn't read another of her works for many years. Figuring that her first book might be a bit more easily read I picked it up, and enjoyed it very much. It's rather the typical English murder mystery that was being published in the '50s and '60s, when this one was written. It involves a murder at the home of relatively wealthy ... Read More
Rating: - The start of a wonderful saga
This is the first book in the series that has made PD James the first name in British mysteries. It sets the tone for the books that will follow and you will be eager to see Adam Dalgliesh develop into Scotland Yard's ace detective. So I would recommend that you start your adventures with Adam here at the beginning.
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