Rent Shroud for a Nightingale

Synopsis

[P.D. James] gives her people fully rounded life, never sacrificing character to plot, and makes deft fun of convention. When suspicion turns to the distinctly peculiar butler, [one character] observes, 'Even in fiction, so I'm led to believe, that solution is regarded as unsatisfactory.' Like her author, Cordelia, tracking whodunit, is less interested in her machinery of death than in the complexities of human life.

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