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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I rate PD James and yet I didn't enjoy this novel as much as others of hers that I've read: but it was her first effort and as such is pretty good. The set up is a bit Cluedo-ish: the Elizabethan manor house,with its mistress and her sickly husband, her adult children, a vicar, the murdered maid. But it's better than that suggests. Chief Inspector Dalgleish has a fine interviewing technique, but we don't get to know him at all outside the interview room. It's the other characters who get to move around to London, the village and beyond. But Dalgleish gets the murderer nailed in the end, and the full story is revealed in all its complexity in the last chapter of all. A good bedtime read. This murder mystery, P.D. James’s debut novel, was published in 1962, during the height of Agatha Christie’s fame and it has a somewhat similar feel in that it is set in an English country estate. I only started reading Christie last year, so I cannot avoid making a comparison, and this novel did not measure up. Its convoluted and far-fetched complexities were implausible to me. I did not hate it despite those infirmities, so I made allowance for the fact that this was James’s first novel. There were glimpses of a good writer. I may try another, but this one disappointed me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en aquel rincon campestre de Martingale, era el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp encontrara un trbajo adecuado y pudiera criar a su hijo sin grandes sobresaltos. La senora Maxie necesitaba ayuda para cuidar de su marido invalido, pero por lo demas, regentar aquella casa tenia que ser una tarea agradable y muy tranquila. Sin embargo, un horrible crimen acabaria pronto con la paz hogarena y las ilusiones de la muchacha de una vida sosegada Afortunadamente el superintendente Adam Dalgliesh, detective y poeta, se encargaria del caso. Otro caso impresionante creado por P. D. James."--Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is definitely not her best but overall I enjoyed myself greatly. ( )