![]() ![]() But it has deviousness to burn, and it also offers other enticements. "The Lighthouse" is too rooted in genre conventions to count originality as its strong suit. These are shades of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," which this novel has the good grace to resemble. In one such dwelling there is a symbolic figurine that winds up symbolically broken. "The Lighthouse" will gratify that readership with what the author herself calls "copybook killings: a small closed society, no access from outside, a limited number of suspects." It is set on a lonely island where the cottages have names like Peregrine and Puffin. ![]() This traditional eureka moment is something to gladden hearts - at least among aficionados of the formally perfect murder scheme. The truth came to him in snatches of conversation, the voices as clear as if they were being spoken into his ear." It was as if the wooden pieces of a spherical puzzle were whirling wildly about his head and then, piece by piece, clicking together into a perfect globe. "And suddenly, with no sense of revelation and no exultation but with absolute certainty, he saw the answer to the puzzle. ![]() James's classically wrought new mystery, "The Lighthouse," the requisite thunderbolt strikes Commander Adam Dalgliesh. ![]()
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