An Unsuitable
Job for a Woman.
P.D. James
6.8.2012 to
8.8.2012
3.5/5
stars.
This was my
4th PD James novel. The protagonist of this book happened to be Miss
Cordelia Gray, unlike the other three, where the protagonist was Adam
Dalgleish, James’s much celebrated policeman.
I am not a
big fan of P.D.James as I find her book too literary for my taste. I hate when
the author of a crime fiction uses up half a page to describe the weather or
the birds on the trees. And, I had the same problem with her other novels.
However, in this book, although the same descriptions were present, but were
mercifully shorter (I guess this book is the one of the shortest of all her
novels).
In the
novel, Miss Gray, inherits a Detective Agency after her partner had committed
suicide. Later she is hired by Sir Ronald Callender, to find out the reason why
his son, Mark, committed suicide. As it happens the suicide turns out to be
murder, and Miss Gray solves the crime with almost 40 odd pages left in the
book. The plot was nothing out of the ordinary, standard modus operandi and
motive, for the killer to commit his crime.
Now, for
the characters. Dame James lets her talent lose on this front. The characters
are very well drawn up. While reading, the reader can almost visualise the
person he is reading about. The dialogues are excellent, especially the speech
by the culprit, justifies his stature as an evil person.
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