Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

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Published April 15, 2001 by Scribner Paperback Fiction.

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978-0-7432-1957-0
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3 stars (1 review)

Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young."

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reviewed Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) by P. D. James

Decent murder mystery, oldfashioned unlikeable charaters

3 stars

I've wanted some more recent procedurals, kind of like police TV series, just in book form, this was my first try.

It was a decent book, I kind of liked it, but I didn't like any other characters than the detective really, and it all feld rather old fashioned, the 2001 release must have been a rerelase I think of an older book? At least it felt that way. All in all it was decent, but it was kind of a bit of a drag to get through.

Subjects

  • Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Police -- England -- Fiction