taschenbuch, 186 pages
German language
Published Feb. 14, 1993 by Rowohlt.
A Mind to Murder (1963) is a crime novel by P. D. James, the second in her Adam Dalgliesh series.
This novel was just okay. It was slow and not very exciting or mysterious. Not a bad read, just not a very good one either.
A tidy little murder mystery very much of its time, with England on the verge of the social upheavals of the 1960s, LSD being used to treat patients (the disconnect here was such that when I first read 'LSD patients' or whatever I thought it meant they had a special unit for people who'd taken too much LSD.). Of its time in that regular people can afford to live in areas such as Notting Hill and Battersea and nobody thinks anything of it; this is no longer the case in London (though it is more or less in other cities in the UK. How do people set novels in London now? Set it in Birmingham and have them live in Moseley or Digbeth instead?).
if you were going to write about the clinical use of LSD you might well set it around there. Ronnie Sandison of Powick Hospital near …
A tidy little murder mystery very much of its time, with England on the verge of the social upheavals of the 1960s, LSD being used to treat patients (the disconnect here was such that when I first read 'LSD patients' or whatever I thought it meant they had a special unit for people who'd taken too much LSD.). Of its time in that regular people can afford to live in areas such as Notting Hill and Battersea and nobody thinks anything of it; this is no longer the case in London (though it is more or less in other cities in the UK. How do people set novels in London now? Set it in Birmingham and have them live in Moseley or Digbeth instead?).
if you were going to write about the clinical use of LSD you might well set it around there. Ronnie Sandison of Powick Hospital near Malvern experimented with LSD treatment - in collaboration with Joel Elkes of the University of Birmingham's Department of Experimental Psychology - in the late 1950s.
