The murder room
(2003)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/JAMES,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/JAMES,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : A.A. Knopf, [2003]
©2003
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION

415 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
1400041414
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber [2003]"--T.p. verso

People and the place : Friday 25 October-Friday 1 November -- First victim : Friday 1 November-Tuesday 5 November -- Second victim : Wednesday 6 November-Thursday 7 November -- Third victim : Thursday 7 November-Friday 8 November

The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing, a second corpse is discovered. Clearly, someone at the Dupayne is prepared to kill, and kill again. The case is fraught with danger and complexity from the outset, not least because of the range of possible suspects--and victims. And still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of the past featured in one of the museum's most popular galleries, the Murder Room. For Dalgiesh, P.D. James's formidable detective, the search for the murderer poses an unexpected complication. After years of bachelorhood, he has embarked on a promising new relationship with Emma Lavenham--first introduced in Death in Holy Orders--which is at a critical stage. Yet his struggle to solve the Dupayne murders faces him with a frustrating dilemma: each new development distances him further from commitment to the woman he loves. The Murder Room is a story dark with the passions that lie at the heart of crime, a masterful work of psychological intricacy