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Books : Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 1)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743219570
ISBN: 0743219570
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 01, 2001
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date: May 01, 2001
Studio: Touchstone
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
Rating:
- Zzzzzzz
"The greatest living mystery writer" (from the back flap)? Not in my book. I'm surprised that the rest of the Dalgliesh books got published after this snoozer. I was warned by a friend that "it's very British," but I didn't realize that she meant: (a) the entire town would be introduced in the first chapter, and I would have to remember their names, relationships, and feelings toward one another, or (b) a surprise character would be introduced near the end to send the story in a new direction. ... Read More
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
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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 1)
by: P.D. James
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743219570
ISBN: 0743219570
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 01, 2001
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date: May 01, 2001
Studio: Touchstone
Related Items:
- A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 2)
- Unnatural Causes (Adam Dagliesh Mystery Series #3)
- Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #4)
- Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #6)
- The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #5)
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Zzzzzzz"The greatest living mystery writer" (from the back flap)? Not in my book. I'm surprised that the rest of the Dalgliesh books got published after this snoozer. I was warned by a friend that "it's very British," but I didn't realize that she meant: (a) the entire town would be introduced in the first chapter, and I would have to remember their names, relationships, and feelings toward one another, or (b) a surprise character would be introduced near the end to send the story in a new direction. ... Read More
Rating:
- PD James' firstCover 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 excitingAfter 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 bookI 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
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