The Murder Room
(P.D. JAMES)
When Max Dupayne dies, his will is such that the little Dupayne Museum, devoted to the inter war period,
can only continue if all of his children vote to renew the lease. Two of them
are keen but one is not, and when he is murdered there are plenty of suspects
among the museum staff and management. Enter police commander Adam Dalgliesh,
who happens to have visited the museum just a week before.
The mystery elements in The murder Room are fairly predictable and
even a bit stagy ? it has parts labeled The People and the Place, The First
Victim, The Second Victim, and The Third Victim. If it lacks the drive of a
thriller, however, it is never the least bit dull; the interest is in the
characters, subplots and setting.
The strands within the police team ? Dalgliesh''s romantic entanglement with
an Oxford academic, some class friction between Piers and new team member
Benton-Smith, and Kate Miskin''s psychological observations ? remain peripheral.
It is the broad range of non-series characters that carry the novel and one of
them that gives it a center. The Museum itself, nestled on the edge of
Hampstead Heath, is also a fascinating creation: James brings to life its
contents, which include a room devoted to high profile murders from which the
title comes, but also its operation and setting and the inter war years that are
its subject.
The Murder Room is a classical murder mystery and vintage P.D.
James.
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