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Title: Cover Her Face by P.D. James ISBN: 0-7432-1957-0 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty dry reading
Comment: P.D. James has a very good reputation as a mystery writer so I was anxious to read some of her books. This is the first one I tried and I found it very dry reading indeed! The story takes place in the home of a wealthy couple in England who have hired a young unmarried mother named Sally Jupp to come and work in their household. She and the son in the household come to announce to everyone that they are engaged to be married. When the announcement is made, there are unhappy family members and a jealous woman who had hoped to marry the man herself.
Inspector Dalgliesh arrives and finds even more people who have a motive to murder Sally. He interviews each person and it seems that each one is hiding something. Of course, at the end, the truth is revealed and there are several people who have a small piece to the puzzle of who the murderer is. The mystery is well-constructed, but the writing style makes it difficult to stay interested and to follow the story line. None of the characters are developed enough to either like or dislike them.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Impressive Debut That Will Interest Established Fans
Comment: Sally Jupp is unexpectedly attractive--and an unwed mother in an era when such still carries considerable stigma. After a sterling record at a home for "fallen women," she finds work as a maid for the aristocratic but somewhat impoverished Maxie family, and once installed shows another aspect of her personality: a perverse pleasure in creating unpleasantness for virtually every one who crosses her path. The Maxie family is largely impervious to her machinations... but when Sally goes so far as to tantalize a proposal of marriage from the Maxie son, her game of troubling the water turns lethal, and Scotland Yard's Inspector Dalgliesh is on the job.
This 1962 effort was P.D. James' first novel, and at the time it drew enough praise to immediately place among the foremost mystery writers of the day. And indeed there is much to be said for it: the story is well-constructed, the characters well drawn, and the crime is appropriately mysterious; on the whole it is a fast and fun read. But not all P.D. James fans will be impressed. Although there is more than a hint of the distinctive style and convolutions James will bring to her later work, it borrows a great deal in construction from Agatha Christie and not a little from Dorothy Sayers in terms of literary style, and Inspector Dalgliesh is not as well developed here as he will eventually become.
On the whole, I recommend the novel--but I recommend it to established fans of P.D. James, who will be interested to see her working in the "classic English murder mystery" style and enjoy comparing this debut work to the author's later and more impressive work. First timers would do better to select one of the many novels that find James at the peak of her form--with DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS or A TASTE FOR DEATH particularly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will truly hypnotize you!
Comment: This story takes place in the 1960's. It is about a British family who has two maids. The main characters in the story are Sally Jupp, Mrs. Lidell, Dr. Epps, Catherine Bowers, Deborah Riscoe, Felix Hearne, Dr. Stephen Maxie, Mrs. Maxie and Martha Bultitaft.
Dr. Maxie has just proposed to his housemaid, Sally Jupp. The engagement was very surprising and disapointing to all of his family and friends. Many people are even mad enough to kill Sally. Sure enough Sally is found dead the next day behind the bolted door leading to her room. Among a houseful of suspects Detective Adam Dagliesh must find her killer. Using only interviews and two minor clues see how Dagleish solves the mystery.
I liked this book because of how all the characters had a huge part in how Dagliesh figured out who the killer was. And another reason why I liked this story was because I liked to see how Dagliesh uses what he already has to track down who the killer is.
I really like this book and recommend it. But i do think it was more of an adult book because of the language and the vocabulary.I think this book would be appropriate for people over the age of 14. This was one of the best books I have ever read so if you see it somewhere go ahead and start reading!
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Title: A Mind to Murder by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219589 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219600 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Unnatural Causes by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219597 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Black Tower by P.D. James ISBN: 0743219619 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Taste for Death by P.D. James ISBN: 0345430581 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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