![]() ![]() ![]() In Original Sin (1995), blood was spilled at a stuffy London publishing house, while A Certain Justice (1997) saw corpses at a venerable London law firm and Death in Holy Orders (2000) explored homicide in a monastery. ![]() And the phase which we may call late James, without morbidity, has forced open the doors of a series of challenged establishments. James's sentences are as different from Christie's as those of a liberal justice and a hanging judge, but, like the previous owner of the title Queen of Crime, she also has a penchant for closed communities and institutions as places to put the bodies that begin her plots.Ī Taste for Death (1985), her finest exploration of her favourite theme - the basic human instincts for killing and religion - begins with murder in a church. ![]()
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