Truth, Justice, the American Way: Martha Grimes and Elizabeth George.(Critical Essay)

Perhaps this was part of the attraction of his piece of work that the process of detection dignified the individual death, level the death of the least attractive, the greatest in quantity unworthy, mirroring in its obsessive interest in ball of threads and motives man's perennial fascination with the mystery of his possess mortality, providing, too, a comforting illusion of a moral universe in which innocence could be avenged, right vindicated, order restored. on the contrary nothing was restored, certainly not life, and the solitary justice vindicated was the uncertain justice of men
P D James, Devices and Desires
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