The lower classes are decidedly uppity, with their carefully tended council houses and a distinct touch of attitude toward their betters.

He soon discovers that there is no shortage of motives, and as he investigates, the complex secrets and powerful passions of village and family life come into play.

When one of the main characters is removed, I would argue the show isn't made better by their demise, that individual adds a lot to the story. I found the way Sally Jupp was presented as both a sympathetic victim, and yet essentially a young woman that nobody seemed to like, cleverly done and there were plenty of twists and turns.

That's rather common, but James does add a locked-room mystery to the murder, so I'm adding a star for a 4-star plot/crime element. Martha is aided by a housemaid, Sally Jupp, an unmarried mother who seems to take lightly what would once have been a cause of shame.Cover Her Face was actually quite surprising in that Inspector Dalgliesh is mostly in the background for a great portion of the book. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Departments of Great Britain's Home Office. I'm going to read more of James and take a different approach: maybe I should just forego taking notes. Please Note: By their very nature, all books will have been handled several times before they get to you.

The witnesses crouched on the low chairs used by the Sunday school children while the coroner drooped over the proceedings from the superintendent’s dais. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life. D. James' delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense. D. James' (1920-2014) Adam Dalgliesh novels as one of my re-read binges due to the fortuitous discovery of several of the early paperbacks while I was emptying a storage locker. Sally had blackmailed her uncle (who unbeknownst to her had spent her modest trust fund) into giving her 30 pounds.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But the Maxie family barely has time to contend with her wily ways - on the following morning the whole village is shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp's body.

A very good book without inscriptions in a very good+ or better dustwrapper unclipped and has a trifle wear to the corners and to the spine tips. But, if you isolate his face, the emotion behind it seems to be resoluteness allied with a close concentration and a complex, active mind. His last breath was the technicality which finally and officially severed him from a world with he had once known and loved. Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must figure out who killed her, but there are many motives and many suspects to rule out before he can do his job.The edition of "War and Peace" I read had a nice, thick bookmark with all the main characters and their various names printed on that bookmark, front and back.