The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
by P.D. James
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Author: P.D. JamesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2008-11-18
ISBN: 0307270777
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Knopf
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- ISBN13: 9780307270771
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
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Summary: 2 Stars
Usually PD James novels are intriguing enough to finish in one sitting. However, this one has such unlikable and boring victims, that the constant skipping ahead and putting the book down for days, makes it impossible to keep track of who is who among the other forgetful characters. The number of cop-out coincidences and crazy people is too high to be acceptable, even in a novel this just gets irritating. Basically 500 pages of character development of people you don't care about and descriptions of South West England. Save your money and go straight to Dorset, it will be less boring. Most likely written by a ghostwriter anyway.
Summary of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating.Two days later she was dead, the victim of murder.
To Commander Adam Dalgliesh, who with his team is called in to investigate the case, the mystery at first seems absolute. Few things about it make sense. Yet as the detectives begin probing the lives and backgrounds of those connected with the dead woman-the surgeon, members of the manor staff, close acquaintances-suspects multiply all too rapidly. New confusions arise, including strange historical overtones of madness and a lynching 350 years in the past. Then there is a second murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself confronted by issues even more challenging than innocence or guilt.
P. D. James has gained an enviable reputation for creating detective stories of uncommon depth and intricacy, combined with the sort of humanity and perceptiveness found only in the finest novelists. The Private Patient ranks among her very best.
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