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Unnatural Causes: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Series, Book 3 (Unabridged)
 
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Unnatural Causes: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Series, Book 3 (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by P.D. James (Author), Michael Jayston (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 7 hours and 15 minutes
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  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 12 Aug 2005
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0053YNRNA
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The peaceful village of Monksmere on the Suffolk coast was Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh's retreat from the daily brutality he had to deal with at Scotland Yard. Then they discovered the mutilated body of crime-writer Maurice Seton, whose macabre murder was to spark off a wave of unparalleled horror. Although the post mortem showed that Seton died from natural causes, Dalgliesh had a different view and a host of suspects who had their own reasons for wanting him dead: his crippled secretary, a striptease artist, and his half-brother, and a vicious drama critic. Dalgliesh began to untangle the mass of lies and hatred which had Monksmere in its grip.
©1967 P.D. James; (P)1984 BBC Audiobooks Limited
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
Unnatural Causes is early Adam Dalgleish. He's still coping with his reluctance to become emotionally intimate and uses a holiday to visit his Aunt Jane as an opportunity to think things over. Will he ask Deborah Riscoe to marry him . . . or not?

Naturally, as soon as he arrives there's a mysterious disappearance followed by all kinds of bizarre events. When the mystery turns into apparent crime, Dalgleish becomes concerned for his aunt who doesn't have an alibi. A.D. is also on the outside looking in as the local CID led by Inspector Reckless seems to resent Dalgleish's presence.

The whole circumstance is made ore bizarre by the presence of many literary types in what increasingly seems to be a literary mystery written about in a mystery. There's a fascinating story within the story element that gets the book off to a strong start.

But as Dalgleish unravels the ultimate mystery, the book also comes unraveled. You get a lengthy explanation, but the end doesn't move swimmingly along like the beginning and middle do.

Perhaps Baroness James painted herself into a corner by producing such an imaginative mystery and couldn't bear to part with it when she couldn't think up a nice ending to match.

But I still recommend the book because of the strong beginning and middle. You can skip the end after the storm if you want. You'll probably like the book better if you do.

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One of the things that I like about PD James, is the abioity to really keep you guessing. The background may seem a little dates now, but the characters are realistically complex even if plots can stretch credibility sometimes. You're a better dectective than me if you work this one out......
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Pretentious balderdash 18 July 2008
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Starts intriguingly enough, but the plot becomes ridiculously complicated and the reader simply ceases to care whodunit. The denouement, when it comes, is utterly unconvincing. No one in their right mind would plan and actually carry out a double murder of the kind described in the novel. The novel is a very early one (1965) and shorter than subsequent ones, but it is over-burdened with 'fine' writing, a failing shared by all P.D.James novels. What a bore.
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