The Murder Room (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)

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Then, in 1962, P. D. James published her first book and reinvented the mystery genre. No longer would readers be satisfied with 'the butler did it' tales; rather, James broke the old mold and fictionalized urban crimes committed by psychopaths, miscreants, and the ordinary 'nutter' who lived next door. "I think in the modern detective story ... the effects of the crime are a great deal more disruptive than they were in the older mystery ... [and] the modern detective story shows how ... contaminating murder can be and how no life in that society ... is untouched by it," opines James.

Immensely satisfying, with James introducing her large cast and its secrets with consummate skill.” — The Washington PostNightingale House is a school young ladies attend to learn nursing skills, but after a student plays patient in a demonstration, she's brutally murdered. Then, another student dies in mysterious circumstances. Adam Dalgliesh will have to figure out who's responsible before more students die.

Kotker, Joan G. "PD James's Adam Dalgliesh Series." in In the Beginning: First Novels in Mystery Series (1995): 139+ Sally Jupp was a gorgeous young woman who used her body and cunning to climb the social ladder. Someone has decided to make her pay for her sins, and Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is determined to find the culprit. Dalgliesh is a widower. He lost his wife in childbirth 13 years before A Mind to Murder, and was reluctant to commit himself ever since. His relationship with Deborah Riscoe ended because of this. During his time at St. Anselm's in Suffolk, he meets Cambridge lecturer Emma Lavenham and later asks her to marry him. The wedding takes place at the end of The Private Patient, published in 2008. A Certain Justice (1998): Dalgliesh and Kate Miskin ( Sarah Winman) become involved in the death of criminal barrister Venetia Aldridge.

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Five of the Dalgliesh novels have been dramatised by Neville Teller for BBC Radio 4. Robin Ellis played Dalgliesh in Cover Her Face (1993; miscredited as Robert Ellis by the BBC announcer) and Devices and Desires (1998). Phillip Franks played the role in A Certain Justice (2005). Dalgliesh was then played by Richard Derrington in A Taste for Death (2008) and The Private Patient (2010).