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* James, P. D. The Murder Room.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov. 2003. 432p. Knopf, $25.95 (1-4000-4141-4).
After 16 novels, James is still able to find insular communities of professionals in which to set her crimes. This time it's the staff of a quirky museum devoted to England between the wars. The piece de resistance of the museum's collection is the Murder Room, in which are gathered artifacts from famous homicides that took place during the interwar years. Naturally, the room plays a crucial role, both as setting and as backstory, when real-life murder comes to the museum. It starts not in the Murder Room but in a garage, where one member of the family-owned museum is incinerated after being doused with petrol. That the victim was lobbying to sell the museum, over the objections of his sister and brother, only adds fuel to ...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) January 23, 2005 700+ words
...regulars, too. At least Commander Adam Dalgleish doesn't have to find his passport in PD James' The Murder Room (Penguin, pounds 6.99), another...point of which just happens to be the Murder Room of the title - an exhibition of inventive...
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- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 24, 2004 700+ words
...and geological history. The Murder Room by P. D. James (Penguin...99) P. D. JAMES'S latest Adam Dalgleish mystery unfolds at a leisurely...war years. At its heart is the Murder Room, devoted to telling the tales...
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- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) December 30, 2004 700+ words
...marriage for much longer. The Murder Room (New Year's Day, BBC1, 9...detective and poet Commander Adam Dalgleish. His latest case leads him to...which mimes the crimes from the murder room. This is a chilling exhibition...
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Byline: Connie Ogle ``The Murder Room'' by P.D. James; Knopf ($25...behavior, understands this. "The Murder Room" possesses everything we desire _ no...and '30s, and specifically on the Murder Room, which highlights the most heinous...
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Byline: Taj Ashaheed On May 7, Nick Berg's body was found after he was executed in Iraq in an act of so-called revenge. On May 10, I viewed the video complete with its gruesome record of Berg's last moments. Now, I am someone who appreciates realism, even on camera. I have videos that portray vivid
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- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) April 3, 1998 700+ words
...best work; the plot is rather contrived and the detective Adam Dalgleish, who comes across murder and intrigue while on holiday...This Life) and Susannah Doyle (Drop the Dead Donkey). Adam Dalgleish (Robin Ellis again) has more to do in Cover Her Face...
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...ingredients in the latest case for PD James's famous detective, Commander Adam Dalgleish. Martin Shaw steps into the shoes of Roy Marsden to play the policeman...9.05pm) CAPTION(S): TWO PARTER: Martin Shaw as Commander Adam Dalgleish
