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Unnatural Causes

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
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Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break.
However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a drifting dinghy to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation.

©2014 P. D. James (P)2014 Faber & Faber Crime Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Exciting

Critic Reviews

"From the moment a handless corpse in a neat city suit is found drifting in a dinghy off the east coast, and we meet the ghastly members of a literary society, we’re hooked." ( Evening Standard)
"The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime." ( Sunday Times)
"One of the most spine-chilling writers around." ( Observer)
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Beautiful English village scenes, the human condition seen through a British lens, gentle reference to strict social mores. PD James delivers delight and dastardly devices in perfect balance.

Dry Wit, Wry Charaterisation, Fly Mystery

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Love these stories hoe clever she was these were written ages ago. All want to marry Danial Weymans voice

Love pdjames

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Narrator extraordinaire, thank you, DW and PD James. Next one lined up. Thrilling to beyond XXX

Daniel Weyman

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I have read or listened to many PD James novels over the past 40 years and this is clearly the worst. The characterisation of women, the disabled and homosexuality is so dated as to be offensive. Adam Dalgleish, the detective, comes across as smug, condescending and dull. The setting is a Suffolk village where all the residents are writers of some sort and all unpleasant suspects. The murder victim is a crime writer and also universally disliked. The plot is completely unbelievable and contrived. There is no clever detective work in the solving of the mystery and I was relieved when it ended. As this was one of her first novels PD James can be forgiven.

Dated murder mystery

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