A Mind to Murder

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  This was an early PD James that made me want to read more of her: there's such a difference between stuff like this and the modern-day crime novels I'm used to. James' characters rarely stray from their allotted roles and speak in full, carefully-crafted paragraphs that you know are littered with cl ... (continue)

  This was an early PD James that made me want to read more of her: there's such a difference between stuff like this and the modern-day crime novels I'm used to. James' characters rarely stray from their allotted roles and speak in full, carefully-crafted paragraphs that you know are littered with clues that you can use to solve the mystery yourself. I've never felt that in, say, a Rebus novel, though maybe that's just me being dumb.

  In short, it's a reasonable page-turner, just not the best I've read, and since James is such a big name, I'm wondering if she gets better in her later books. Any offers?

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• English Books
• Hardcover 224 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140038507
• ISBN-13: 9780140038507
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Pub date: Apr 01, 1995
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 645 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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