ORIGINAL SIN

Happily, the extraordinary richness of P.D. James's characterizations exactly coincides with John Franklyn-Robbins's strength as a narrator. His reading skillfully explores the essential traits of each character whether acidic, pompous, generous or--as is true of everyone in a P.D. James work--needy. What's more, with a change of inflection or pacing, Franklyn-Robbins illuminates the understated ironies and humor always embedded in a James mystery. You can almost see Franklyn-Robbins's raised eyebrow. In this outing, Commander Adam Dalgliesh sorts through the death of the ruthless director of an august London publishing house and its crosscurrents of love, ambition and malice. M.O. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT 96]