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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 ...
- Murder on tape.(The Murder Room)(Carter Beats the Devil)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Cooper, Robert September 4, 2004 700+ words
...problematical horse race. In The Murder Room (Chivers Audio Books. 13 hours...aloof super-sleuth Commander Adam Dalgleish to scrutinise the facts and quiz...Heath we find ourselves in the Murder Room of the Dupayne Museum, a room...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire December 30, 2004 700+ words
...s pilot of forthcoming ITV1 series Donovan and appears in the latest Adam Dalgleish detective drama The Murder Room on BBC1 over the New Year. "Caroline in The Murder Room is very uptight and sitting on a whole lot of secrets, she's about...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire January 1, 2005 700+ words
...BEST MURDER PD James's detective Adam Dalgleish returns, played by Martin Shaw, in The Murder Room (BBC1, 9.40pm). Bodies drop like...Dalgleish finally works out whodunit in The Murder Room (BBC1, 9pm), while Geraldine McEwan...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire December 4, 2008 700+ words
...Rhodes. In 2003 he took over the part of Commander Adam Dalgleish from Roy Marsden for an adaptation of PD James' novel...in Holy Orders, reprising the role in 2005 for The Murder Room. He recently added the role of detective George Gently...
- Top 10 audiobook mysteries.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Harris, Karen May 1, 2004 700+ words
...humor, offbeat characters, and seamy Detroit setting. The Murder Room. By P. D. James. Read by Charles Keating. 2003. 13...then a second killing occurs during Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgleish's investigation. James' literate style and Dalgleish...
- Trouble at the mill.(The Murder Room)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Waugh, Harriet June 21, 2003 700+ words
THE MURDER ROOM by P. D. James Faber, 17.99...Lavenham. At the beginning of The Murder Room not much has changed. Two hearts that...most importantly for the plot, a 'murder room', containing curiosities pertaining...
- P. D. James' The Murder Room.(Video Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Smith, Candace February 15, 2006 700+ words
P. D. James' The Murder Room. 2005. 3hr. BBC Audiobooks America...each. 800-621-0182. The "Murder Room," a wing of the Dupayne Museum...sophisticated treatment of James' The Murder Room (2003). Martin Shaw plays Scotland...
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- News wire article from: Miami Herald (Miami, FL) November 28, 2003 700+ words
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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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ogle, Connie December 3, 2003 700+ words
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...
- James, P.D. The Murder Room.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Rhodes, Barbara June 15, 2004 700+ words
JAMES, P.D. The Murder Room. 9 cassettes. unabridged. 13 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2003...burned to death in his car at the Dupayne Museum, which has a "murder room" that contains exhibits dedicated to some of the more bizarre...
