Volume 45, Number 2 · February 5, 1998
Inside the Locked Room
By Joyce Carol Oates
A Certain Justice: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
by P.D. James
Knopf, 364 pp., $25.00
Henry James's famous final words might be the epigraph for the literary genre we call mystery/detective. In these usually tightly plotted, formulaic novels a corpse is often discovered as soon as the reader opens the book:
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