Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Sort of interesting, but ineffectively presented

This is a very standard P.D. James mystery in terms of plot and characters. The story is somewhat interesting, but is not well told - the book is far lengthier than it should be given the plot.The characters, normally decent, are very two dimensional with stereotypical old english personalities. All of them are hyper-aware of the feelings of other and all seem to notice small details with clarity (and are only too happy to exposit for pages). Also, James continues to beat the gender-differences drum monotonously, which makes the text seem dated.Overall, I would not recommend going out of your way to read this one.