The Murder Room - Hardcover

James, Baroness P. D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571218210 ISBN 13: 9780571218219

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2003

Synopsis

When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications. Even before the murder, the museum was in tumult. A new lease is due to be signed and two of the trustees are determined to keep the museum open, the third passionately determined on its closure.

The museum is dedicated to the years 1919-1939 and one of the galleries, the Murder Room, displays exhibits from the most notorious cases of those inter-war years. And now a modern killer is at work, the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display. All the small group of people, the trustees, staff and volunteers, who work in the Dupayne, have the means and the opportunity for murder. One of them has the ruthlessness to kill and kill again.

The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham, but their relationship, at a sensitive stage for them both, is continually frustrated by the demands of his job. As step by step he moves closer to the murderer, is the investigation taking him further away from commitment to the woman he loves?

About this title

Review:

"The Murder Room scintillates from the start ... gleams with inventive sparkle." -- Scotland on Sunday

"P D James’s new offering is another masterpiece of detailed characters and beautifully-drawn plots." -- Oxford Mail

Book Description:

Set in the world of museums and galleries in London, The Murder Room is the twelfth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571218210
• ISBN 13: 9780571218219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384