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BOOKS: THE MURDER ROOM, by P.D. James*

By Bill James / October 4, 2003

THE MURDER ROOMby P.D. JamesFaber and Faber, Rec. price: $29.95Don’t read P.D. James if you relish detailed post-mortems of mutilated corpses. Don’t read her for lip-smacking depictions of sex and violence. And try a Mills and Boon instead if you are after romance; the love affair of her detective, Adam Dalgleish, is passionless, unconvincing and tacked on.If, on the other hand, you are after an engrossing yarn written with enormous skill by an elderly lady who is in tune with what some call nat…

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