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...improved" versions, including Romeo and Juliet with a non-Kervorkian resolution. Among Shakespeare's self-appointed co-writers was the now forgotten Nahum Tate (1652-1715), who cut and pasted his way through Coriolanus, Richard II and, most notoriously, King Lear, to whom Tate restored sanity, crown and daughter Cordelia before the curtain fell. Among Lear's last Tate speeches: "Cordelia shall be a queen./ Winds catch the sound/ And bear it on your rosy wings to heaven./ Cordelia is a queen...
Readers always ask if Dalgleish will rendez-vous with Cordelia Gray, James' female private-eye, but James refuses to comment on any possible future entanglements. She also denies any personal attachment to the Commander, pooh-poohing parallels to Dorothy Sayer's well-known infatuation with her own detective, Lord Peter Wimsey...
...think my next will be another mystery. It might be Dalgliesh. I'd like to do another Cordelia, but I think it'll be another Dalgliesh...
...Fans of Cordelia Gray, James' female private eye, will have to wait it out. Is James infatuated with the Commander...
...suspicious and possibly vengeful Cordelia is an even more unsettling companion than the normally daft one. Richard feels guilty for wanting to leave his wife and also for worrying about what his future would be like without her money: " ... all cafes, canteens, pubs, pavements, bus shelters, bus queues, buses...