Cover Her Face (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)

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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 country life. Extra’s celebration continues on Thursday at 6.30pm with Great Lives, as Matthew Parris talks to crime writer Val McDermid about the life of PD James. From 2015. Published in 1962 this six part adaption was first broadcast in 1985 on ITV and was a instant success paving the way for more PD James adaptions and even more TV detectives such as Morse, Lewis, Endeavor, And Frost and many many others.

Cover Her Face (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) Cover Her Face (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)

A television version of the novel was produced for Britain's ITV network in 1985. It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh, John Vine as Inspector John Massingham (instead of Detective Sergeant Martin), Phyllis Calvert as Eleanor Maxie, Rupert Frazer as Stephen Maxie, Mel Martin as Deborah Riscoe, Julian Glover as Felix Hearne, and Kim Thomson as Sally Jupp. As the television adaptation was set contemporaneously but the characters' ages had to remain unchanged, Felix Hearne's military service was relocated to Cyprus and a secondary storyline was added about Cypriot drug-dealers. It was filmed at Rainthorpe Hall in Norfolk. Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. [1] It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: " Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel.The novel was generally very well received by critics although the author later described it as her least favourite among her books. [2] Boucher, Anthony (24 July 1966). "Criminals at Large". The New York Times. New York . Retrieved 13 April 2017. Barzun, Jacques and Taylor, Wendell Hertig. A Catalogue of Crime. New York: Harper & Row. 1971, revised and enlarged edition 1989. ISBN 0-06-015796-8 The story opens with a dinner party hosted by Mrs. Eleanor Maxie at Martingale, a manor house in the (fictional) Essex village of Chadfleet. Mrs. Maxie's son and daughter, Stephen Maxie and Deborah Riscoe, are both at the party. Serving at table is Sally Jupp, chosen from a local refuge for unmarried mothers to help in the house by Mrs Maxie and now living in with her infant son, Jimmy. Also present at the meal are Steven's former romantic interest, Catherine Bowers; Alice Liddell, warden of St Mary's Refuge; and Dr Epps, the family doctor.

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The cocoa discovered at Sally's bedside is found to contain traces of Mr Maxie's sleeping tablets. Martha has been using them to drug Sally's cocoa so that she would oversleep, be discredited and eventually dismissed. It is Mrs. Eleanor Maxie who eventually confesses to the murder of Sally Jupp after Dalgliesh reveals everyone's movements on the night. It is clear, through a process of elimination, that only she could be the culprit. Her first detective story, immediately pleasing and impressive. The pace is deliberate, the characterization of the members of an English county family very well done, and the central character of Sally Jupp – a servant girl with imagination and a love of power – most unusual but compelling. Insp. Dalgliesh is perhaps too quietly competent in his disclosure of Sally's killer – and, despite the title, the girl isn't a Duchess of Malfi." [3] – A Catalogue of Crime The murder of housemaid Sally Jupp reveals a web hidden passions beneath the calm surface of a village in East Anglia. The novel ends with a later meeting between Adam Dalgliesh and Deborah Riscoe, where it is hinted that a future relationship will develop between them. In a 1966 book review, Anthony Boucher of The New York Times wrote "This is a literate and not unpromising first novel, but modeled firmly upon the detective story of 30 years ago at its dullest... When I keep urging a return to the formal detective story, this is not what I mean." [4] Adaptations editFrom P. D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. Set in the peaceful English countryside, Cover Her Face is a classic murder mystery. BBC Radio 4 Extra continues its celebration this week of the centenary of the birth of renowned crime fiction novelist, PD James. Mr. and Mrs. Proctor – Sally's aunt and uncle who raised her after her parents were killed during the Blitz That is the thing I always will most remember about her: what a kind woman she was, how she did her very best to make you feel good.’