The Private Patient (Vintage)
by P.D. James
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Author: P.D. JamesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-03
ISBN: 0307455289
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Another fine novel from the Baroness
Summary: 5 Stars
(Steps up to the platform, taps microphone, oops feedback, adjusts device), starts to talk:
OK, I'm going to review P.D. James's "The Private Patient" now. Umm, but before I begin, I want to tell you that while you learn who the murder victim is in the first paragraph, the murder doesn't take place for another 90 pages in a book that has 352 of them. Those who'd prefer to hear about something else might want to try room 15B where . . . (Sound of chairs scraping, scurrying, and cries of "hello---I must be going!"
Alright, for those who remain, this is another of the author's tales of the intellectual detective Adam Dalgliesh and his squad, who must discover who murdered that private patient, Rhoda Gradwyn, an investigative reporter who shows up at the Dorsetshire clinic of a plastic surgeon in order to get a scar removed. She's a private patient, which in British terms means in that the operation is on her dime, not that of the coungtry's (in)famous National Health Service.
As always with Ms. James, the novel is stuffed with background information about the many suspects, lush descriptive passages, cynical asides about the state of the modern world, and a good suspenseful plot (albeit one more impressionistic than usual, even by the author's own standards).
If you're a fan of the series, don't pass it up--it may be the last one Ms. James, approaching 90, may ever get to write. And it would appear from some of the scenes in this book that she's well aware of that.
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