To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband’s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs. White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England-died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. All in all the book and its author gave much material for wide ranging discussions.P. James’ views on the role of women in society threads through the novel. The novel is notable for its descriptions of the sea and the night sky the sea, in fact, is as much a character as any described therein. We finished with respect for James’ command of language, structuring technique and phrasing.
Does the islanders’ reticence betray a knowledge of the crime? Another death and Dalgliesh’s own life in danger throws the entire investigation into jeopardy. However, Dalgliesh has his work cut out, since both residents and visitors to Combe Island guard their privacy well – even when murder makes them a suspect.
But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of the island’s lighthouse, murder – not suicide – is suspected.Ĭommander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are immediately called in: the investigation must be swift, discreet, decisive. Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top.
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