Brividi di morte per l'ispettore Dalgliesh

by P. D. James, Maria Grazia Griffini (Translator)

Overview

Un tempo era un covo di pirati. Oggi Comble Island è una località prestigiosa, frequentata esclusivamente da uomini illustri in cerca di riposo. Ma un atroce delitto sconvolge la quiete paradisiaca di questa piccola oasi al largo della Cornovaglia: Nathan Oliver, celebre scrittore, viene trovato impiccato nella torre dell'antico faro ormai in disuso. Chi aveva interesse a uccidere quell'uomo ormai anziano, ossessionato dall'idea della morte e dal timore di perdere il suo talento letterario? L'ispettore capo Adam Dalgliesh, incaricato di condurre le indagini, si rende ben presto conto che Oliver era, in realtà, un uomo bizzarro e spietato, con se stesso e con gli altri. Tutti lo odiavano, e avevano un buon motivo per ucciderlo...
P.D. James, la grande signora della letteratura poliziesca, ci trascina in una nuova, inquietante avventura del più brillante e intuitivo ispettore della polizia di Sua Maestà britannica. Un romanzo coinvolgente e impeccabile, che va oltre i consueti schemi del giallo, per addentrarsi nei più torbidi segreti della natura umana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852010347
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	10/07/2010
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Few writers have left so indelible an impression on crime fiction as P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James, an author whose elegant, bestselling novels have found an appreciative audience among readers and critics alike. James's intricately plotted books are filled with macabre events and shocking twists and turns, yet they are so beautifully written and morally complex that they cannot be dismissed as mere murder mysteries...although, in James's view, there's nothing "mere" about mysteries!

In James's native Britain (home of Wilkie Collins, Graham Greene, and the redoubtable Agatha Christie), the mystery is a time-honored form that has never been considered inferior. James explained her feelings in a 1998 interview with Salon.com: "It isn't easy to make this division and say: That's genre fiction and it's useless, and this is the so-called straight novel and we take it seriously. Novels are either good novels or they're not good novels, and that is the dividing line for me."

Although she always wanted to be a novelist, James came to writing relatively late in life. Her formal schooling ended at 16, when she went to work to help out her cash-strapped parents. In 1941 she married a doctor assigned to the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returned from WWII with a severe mental illness that lasted until his death in 1964, necessitating that James become the family breadwinner. She worked in hospital administration and then in various departments of the British Civil Service until her retirement in 1979. (Her experience navigating the labyrinthine corridors of government bureaucracies has provided a believable backdrop for many of her books.)

James's first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. An immediate success, it introduced the first of her two longtime series protagonists -- Adam Dalgleish, a police inspector in Scotland Yard and a published poet. Her second recurring character, a young private detective named Cordelia Gray, debuted in 1972's An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Both Dalgliesh and Cordelia went on to star in a string of international bestsellers.

James has only occasionally departed from her series, most notably for the standalone mystery Innocent Blood (1980) and the dystopian sci-fi classic Children of Men (1992), which was turned into an Oscar-nominated film. In 2000, she published a slender "fragment of autobiography" called A Time to Be Earnest, described by The New York Time Book Review as " deeply moving, and all too short."

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

August 3, 1920

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

Attended the Cambridge High School for Girls from 1931 to 1937 and later took evening classes in hospital administration