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Adam Dalgliesh, Book 9
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Penelope Dellaporta
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P. D. James
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Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies - a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.
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What did you like best about this story?
The philosophical elements, such as the exploration of what personal identity means and how it is expressed in life.What does Penelope Dellaporta bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She expresses the characters in different accents that I would not even know about let alone be able to imagine as I read the book.Any additional comments?
One very disturbing thing about this audio book was that every 30-40 minutes a sentence or two would repeat. It bacame very disturbing by the end of the bookas always PD James is good
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Needs better editing
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Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
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The story like others of P. D. James is great though it did take a while to get started. I just wish there was more attention paid to the audio file. Every so often lines are repeated. It seems that an tape version was converted. At least we don't get the side 2 message.Good book, still needs some work on the audio thou
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Again an extraordinary mystery with humam emotion
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Quiet Different=unexpected
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No complaints
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Descriptions are so beautiful
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Great!
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