Word: dalgleish
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...release of The Children of Men in 1993, the author's first non-mystery novel, some fans worried she might have abandoned the cloak-and-dagger genre for good. Original Sin proves them resoundingly wrong. Not only does it mark the return of James' ever-popular detective, Adam Dalgleish, it is one of the most mystery-like of her mysteries...
Suspects, setting, death--Part One, the aptly titled "Foreword to Murder," whets the reader's appetite. The discerning P.D. James fan sits up and takes notice when the "tall dark figure" of Adam Dalgleish makes a striking appearance in Part...
...Dalgleish joins a long line of detective heroes, from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. Like his predecessors, he is an educated investigator and a deeply sensitive individual. Unlike earlier detectives, he is a professional policeman, a published poet, and he harbors a secret tragedy--early in his career, his wife died in childbirth. He avoids romance and even short-term affairs...
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...
...strike's first six days, the doctors and government communicated mainly by trading angry press communiques. Dr. Harold Dalgleish, president of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, demanded that the act "be withdrawn while doctors are still available who are not fully committed to leave Saskatchewan." But at week's end the doctors had not softened their tone, nor had Premier Lloyd. Said the premier: "This is no longer just a matter of medical care service. It is now an outright challenge to the procedures of constitutional government. If one can envisage this spreading to other groups...