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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780307270771
ISBN: 0307270777
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: November 18, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Sales Rank: 62
Studio: Knopf
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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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Rating:  - a country house murder, and much more
[Dana sez:I wrote this review for the Poisoned Pen eNewsletter on December 3, 2008.]
What could be more English than a country house murder?In The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) P.D. James summons up the shades of Conan Coyle and Agatha Christie in murder most foul of a patient at a stately country manor turned medical clinic.Means, motive and opportunity are all on offer for everyone on the premises, from the self-absorbed doctor, the idealistic assistant, the lovelorn ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Book
All I have to say about this book is that I read every word.It's wonderfully written.The only author whose every word I read is James Lee Burke.Usually these British books aren't as good to me as the TV series, but this one was wonderful, great atmosphere and characterization.
Rating: - Ageless talent in modern times
Don't get me wrong; P. D. James has written characters specific to some of her books that linger in my memory to this day, years after having read about them in one of her earlier stories.Even the most minor of her characters practically walks off the page in front of you while you're reading one of these novels, and this one is no different in that respect.And her plots are superb.But its Adam Dalgliesh and the few people who are important to him that have meant the most to me since I discovered ... Read More
Rating: - A MODULATED, PRECISE READING
London born actress Rosalyn Landor is the perfect choice to read a P. D. James mystery.The daughter of an actor/broadcaster Landor grew up with reading aloud, story telling, and that love for the spoken word is reflected in her voice performances.Her readings are well modulated, precise as she carries listeners along to what is in this case a surprising denouement.
What lover of mysteries has not read or at least heard of P.D. James?The author of 19 books she spent some 30 years ... Read More
Rating: - "Whoever killed her, I doubt whether she'll be much missed."
In P. D. James's "The Private Patient," forty-seven year old Rhoda Gradwyn decides to have plastic surgery to remove a disfiguring scar that has marred her face for thirty-four years.Rhoda is a successful investigative journalist who can afford a top physician, George Chandler-Powell.He will perform the operation at the impressive Cheverell Manor in Dorset, where he has a private and very expensive clinic.Rhoda's close friend, Robin Boynton, is a handsome and unfocused dilettante, who is always trying ... Read More
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