Open that window, Miss Menzies
Patricia Craig
- A Taste for Death by P.D. James
Faber, 454 pp, £9.95, June 1986, ISBN 0 571 13799 7 - A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Viking, 300 pp, £9.95, March 1986, ISBN 0 670 80976 4 - Dead Men’s Morris by Gladys Mitchell
Joseph, 247 pp, £9.95, April 1986, ISBN 0 7181 2553 3 - Laurels are poison by Gladys Mitchell
Hogarth, 237 pp, £2.95, June 1986, ISBN 0 7012 1010 9 - Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken
Cape, 251 pp, £7.95, June 1986, ISBN 0 224 02364 0
The epigraphs of P.D. James (now that she has taken to using them) are important. ‘There’s this to say for blood and breath,’ runs the latest one, from A.E. Housman: ‘They give a man a taste for death.’ Are we being directed to hold in mind those other lines of Housman’s?
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Vol. 8 No. 14 · 7 August 1986 » Patricia Craig » Open that window, Miss Menzies
pages 22-23 | 2972 words