Title: Actually 4 1/2 stars
Product review: I am a devoted PD James fan and I have also loved Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh. I think this film version of "Cover Her Face" is slightly more successful as an Adam Dalgliesh mystery than as a faithful addaptation of the PD James novel. Being her first novel, it was more in the basic English manorhouse tradition than her later more in complex novels. That said, I still found it a very good and intelligent read. For some inexplicable reason, an elaborate London based drug plot was added to this film version and, for me, it didn't enhance the story one bit. Nevertheless, Roy Marsden is, as always, wonderful as James' poet detective and it is well worth having for any James or Roy Marsden fan.
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