Saturday, 29 April 2023

Dalgleish: Death of an Expert Witness (2023 Geoffrey Sax)

P.D. James' seventh Dalgliesh novel, published in 1977, has been adapted by Helen Edmundsen.

My problem with these is I never remember characters' names and usually get a bit lost. Somehow though managed to identify the culprit early on.

His character is so reserved and polite and stoic and quiet that it's almost like Bertie Carvel is providing a pastiche of himself. With he and Carlyss Peer, we have Richard Harrington, Sam Hoare, Margaret Clunie (good as utter bitch, also in Victoria), Deborah Findlay, Dominic Rowan, David Hargreaves, Lara Cohen, Stuart Graham.

DP Ian Moss and production designer Nicola Moroney evoke a dark 1970s.

"Everything all right, sir?"



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