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P. D. James

New Scotland Yard's Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's elegant poet-detective, is dispatched to a theological college to investigate the death of a young seminarian in James's new mystery, "Death in Holy Orders." This retrospective includes reviews of James's books "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (1973), "A Taste for Death" (1986), "A Certain Justice" (1997) and others, interviews with the author and articles written by James for The Times.
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TODAY'S REVIEW

Roger Angell
A Pitcher's Story: Innings With David Cone
By ROGER ANGELL
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
"While the reader winces at the spectacle of a reporter dogging the heels of a struggling athlete, documenting his every failure, 'A Pitcher's Story' becomes a tribute to Cone's 'bulldogness' . . ."


THE SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW

This Week's Reviews
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
By JAMES BAMFORD
Reviewed by JOSEPH FINDER
"Not only is this the definitive book on America's most secret agency, but it is also an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a galvanizing narrative brimming with heretofore undisclosed details."

Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart
By STEVEN BACH
Reviewed by BRAD LEITHAUSER
"[Bach makes] refreshingly modest claims on behalf of his subject [and shows] the unglamorous but indispensable doggedness of a thorough reporter . . . [Hart himself] doesn't ultimately seem all that compelling . . ."
First Chapter: 'Dazzler'

Death in Holy Orders
By P. D. JAMES
Reviewed by SARAH FERRELL

"Even for P. D. James, the plot is complicated, and purists might complain that its resolution depends on the most Dickensian of coincidences. Most of the rest of us will marvel that a story of such baroque intricacies can be resolved in any way at all . . ."
Featured Author: P. D. James
First Chapter: 'Death in Holy Orders'

Washington
By MEG GREENFIELD
Reviewed by ADAM CLYMER
"What Greenfield has left us, despite the disjointedness almost inevitable in posthumous publication, is . . . a new way of looking at a flawed Washington, one that is scathing in import if not in tone . . ."



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• 'The Collected Stories of Richard Yates'
• Ray Monk's 'Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970'
• Ronald Hayman's 'A Life of Jung'
• Nani Power's 'Crawling at Night'
• Peter Edelman's 'Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope'

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• A Comic by Mark Alan Stamaty


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