The Headlight (Romance)

See also: the Headlight

the Headlight is a detective novel of the British writer Phyllis Dorothy James.

With broad of Cornouailles English, Combe Island shelters a Foundation intended to make it possible eminent personalities to come to enjoy quietude from this world cup place and ressourcer with marine iodine. In addition to the permanent residents - Emily Holcombe, last heiress of the owners of the island, Rupert Maycroft, the administrator of the Foundation, Adrian Boyde, the accountant, daN Padgett, the factotum, etc -, Nathan Oliver, a writer of world reputation, remains there regularly, accompanied by his/her Miranda daughter and her secretary Dennis Tremlett. Whereas the island accommodates two new visitors, one of its inhabitants is found died under at the very least suspect conditions. Charged with carrying out a survey as fast as discrete, because Combe Island must be used soon as framework with an international top, the commander Dalgliesh very quickly has the certainty which it is about a crime. But the island is sudden the prey of another threat, much more insidious, this one, and which compromises the participation of Dalgliesh… In the door - closed of an island beaten by the winds are joined together all expensive qualities with the aficionados of the “queen of the crime”: alive evocation of the places, subtle incursions into the life of the characters, without forgetting the bounces of a vibrating intrigue. “P.D. James gave to the English detective novel its noble letters by combining the literature with a popular kind. ” (Gerard Meudal, Le Monde.) “There is no fault at Phyllis Dorothy James: its style is superb, thick, fascinating, its intrigues are impeccably muddled puzzles, its characters very subtly camped. ” (Christian Gonzales, Le Figaro Madam.)

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