P.D. James - A Taste for Death (Detective Series)
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A Taste for Death is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's Live Flesh. It was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1987. The book has been adapted for television and radio.
Plot summary
In the dingy vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Paddington, two bodies have been found with their throats slashed. One is an alcoholic vagrant, whereas the other is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned government minister. Poet and detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates one of the most convoluted cases of his career.
Title
The title is drawn from a short poem by A. E. Housman, which is printed at the start of the novel:
Some can gaze and not be sick,
But I could never learn the trick.
There's this to say for blood and breath,
They give a man a taste for death.
Reception
In a 1986 book review for The New York Times, Robert B. Parker wrote the book is "graced by one of the most felicitous prose styles I know. Ms. James is simply a wonderful writer." The Sunday Times called it "A cunningly compulsive work... heart-pounding suspense". In a 1986 piece on James by Julian Symons, he notes A Taste for Death "is the longest, most ambitious and the best of Phyllis James's 10 novels."
Adaptations
A television version of the novel was produced for Britain's ITV network in 1988. It starred Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Wendy Hiller as Lady Berowne.
Another version with Bertie Carvel as Dalgleish was made as part of the 2021 Channel 5 miniseries Dalgleish, in a much shorter adaptation.
I do so enjoy these stories. Excellent casting. I like to listen while sew or cook etc. Thanks to all.❤
Glad you enjoy it! Sarah. Thanks for listening and the kind words.
In case anyone else was confused: "Mattie" is the nickname for Evelyn Matlock; they're the same person.
Such is the bond between adulterers: Bound together by lies, deceit, and consealing their relationship in darkness... No good can come from such folly; only eventual destruction, disgrace, ongoing pain and regret.
Do you speak from experience?
Gripping plot, quality radio production. Thank you for sharing this with us. 😊
Thanks for listening
Great villain! Good story, thanks.
Thanks. Great channel. Real people not AI. Great stories!
I've been reading P.D. James for years, and I've read this. Well done everyone. Enjoyed listening.
Love the Radio plays, takes me back to my childhood in Scotland, Saturday night theatre was fish and chips, and the play. Happy memories. ❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you. Listening from Alaska.
Thanks for listening up there. Stay warm.
Thank you so much for sharing. I enjoyed the story and the production very much ❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello and many many thanks for this excellent story and your channel in general, and to those who don't seem to grasp the difference between an audio book and a radio drama I think the cello music is very relaxing, I have subbed your channel and I will work my way through all your videos 👍❤️
Thanks for listening and thanks for the kind words.
Thanks. Quite a story. Many twists and turns.
Excellent quality, great story. Thank you.
Thanks for listening
I'm also a cranky geriatric, but you should thank god at least its not AI.
Ha. Right here with you.
When those AI voices mis-pro-nown-see-ate words, it feels like I'm chewing tinfoil whilst scratching a blackboard with my fingernails. #getoffamylawn
@@stringlarson1247 chuckling, I don't bother with those AI voices, no humanity, stone cold frigid.
I'm a major audio book addict, and usually not into dramatized versions; however, this is/was quite enjoyable. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing.❤
Top shelf entertainment ❤,
😂 don't you mean 'top drawer'? Meaning best quality,best breeding. ' Top shelf ' is where a certain sort of man's magazine is sold, to keep it out of the eyeline( and reach) of children!😂
Very enjoyable
Glad you enjoyed it
I think the Dalgliesh actor's voice is too old sounding, unless this is one of the later books in the series. And I like the music much better in between segments than the earlier ones when they listed the whole cast before AND after each installment. I don't know if the BBC stopped doing it or Nikola cleaned it up, but grateful either way!
I edited between chapters. Thanks for noticing.
Excellent!
Glad you liked it!
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Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth 😊
These story are good and you don't kneed music . And the music is bloody awful.
Need
Philistine.
It is a chaconne from one of the incomparable Bach suites for unaccompanied cello. It exemplifies the elegiac, sad humanity of PD James's writing.
Even though I find the story interesting, I find the additional noises and the playing of the instrument in between the chapters disrupting and very annoying. I will stop reading now,as I don’t need to be angered while I am listening to a.book.
Oh grow up
This is a dramatization not a reading of the text
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Right! Cry baby 😂 I specifically searched for ’radio plays’ because I was looking for sound effects and music
What is this annoying knocking noise in the background during lady Ursula and Dalgliesh’s conversation? If this continues, I will stop listening.
Think it's a clock ticking,,
Oh no!
Should we alert the media? Are you moving to France?
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