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Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat...
...brilliant orchestration of fakery, constantly retuned according to the monitoring by Ultra, Hitler was led to believe that invasion was imminent in the Balkans, then in Norway and finally, even after Dday, in the area of Calais. "Special means" had created phantom invasion forces in East Anglia, opposite Calais, complete with phony inflatable tanks that looked real from the air and "complaints" from clergymen about the soldiers' habit of discarding condoms. The nonexistent army even had an illustrious commander, General George Patton, during one of his periods of disgrace...
...candidate, a young London stockbroker. "Indeed, yes, an admirable idea. Splendid, splendid." Freud interrupted to inquire whether his opponent really knew what MAGPAS was. "It's one of those agricultural ones, isn't it?" mumbled the Tory. No, deadpanned Freud, it actually was an acronym for Mid-Anglia General Practitioners Accident Service...
Innocent here is a gentle, archaic term for a retarded child. Antoinette Guthrie, aged three, is the daughter of a beautiful English woman and a wealthy American. She is confided to the care of an aging friend in East Anglia while her parents travel on the Continent. World War II interrupts the tour, and the parents must return directly to America, leaving their daughter in England for the duration. After the war, the mother, who has become a New York society figure, returns to England to reclaim her child...
...dirge reflects not only the declining impact of religion generally but some hard demographic facts. Largely because of farm mechanization, England's rural population has dwindled by 75% in the past half-century; in some isolated pockets of Sussex and East Anglia, it has fallen to 2% of the pre-World War I level. But while the people have gone, their churches remain. Near the village of Tetford, for example, there are seven miniature churches, most of them nearly 200 years old, that were built by the old town gentry in a kind of keeping-up-with-Squire-Jones...