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Cargando... I mördarens rum (edición 2005)por P. D. James, Ulla Danielsson
Información de la obraLa sala del crimen por P. D. James
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. El mayor atractivo del Dupayne, un pequeno museo privado londinense dedicado a los anos de entreguerras (1919-1939), es una inquietante Sala del Crimen donde se estudian los casos mas sonados de la epoca. Su interes es indudable, pero Neville, el menor de los hermanos Dupayne, considera que la institucion debe cerrar sus puertas. La incertidumbre sobre la continuidad del museo genera una insoportable tension, que se quebrara cuando se descubra el cuerpo calcinado de Neville. Se trata de un asesinato, un suicidio, un accidente? Por que esta muerte recuerda tanto a uno de los sucesos recogidos en la Sala del Crimen? Dalgliesh emprende la ardua tarea de estudiar un caso que, a medida que se complica con nuevas muertes relacionadas con los hechos ilustrados en la Sala del Crimen, amenaza con destruir la vida privada de este celebre y ahora enamorado poeta y detective de Scotland Yard. P. D. James utiliza una vez mas los parametros de la novela negra para construir una historia plagada de detalles y unos personajes cercanos, profundos y humanos.
The éminence grise of British detective fiction, James delivers another ruminative puzzler, generous in character, graceful in prose. James writes with such ease and juggles her plots and characters with such control that none of this gets out of hand. . . Alas, James's efforts to inject suspense into Dalgliesh's romantic life are less effective. . . There is no mistaking P. D. James's latest mystery for the work of a younger writer. . . Her characters are confused by euros and annoyed by mobile phones. . . Despite her elegiac frame of mind, Ms. James has not lost her taste for a good throttling. It's a general rule of fiction that authors are happiest creating characters closest to their own age. This is because all fiction is broadly autobiographical. Male novelists in their early 20s create wincingly convincing teenagers but - by their 60s - are sketching adolescents who are merely embarrassing sexual fantasies. As an octogenarian novelist, James is showing similar difficulties of characterisation. . . I've never really got Dalgleish. His combination of policing skill and artistic sensibility - he's an acclaimed poet - has always struck a false note for me, especially given that he's so emotionally constrained. . . In The Murder Room, even his detective skills are more assumed than demonstrated. Several people, Dalgleish included, comment on his ability to get people to tell him things. Yet in this book, you have no idea why. All he seems to do is enter a room, ask a question and the admissions come thick and fast. . . Once she does begin, though, she doesn't relent until the genuinely chilling climax. Patrician, eccentric, but still a delight. Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
El mayor atractivo del Dupayne, un pequeño museo privado londinense dedicado a los años de entreguerras (1919-1939), es una inquietante Sala del Crimen donde se estudian los casos más sonados de la época. Su interés es indudable, pero Neville, el menor de No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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