Adam Dalgliesh · Book 2
A Mind to Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1963
- Pages
- 254
- ISBN-13
- 9780606224543
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Mind to Murder (1963) is the second of P. D. James's fourteen Dalgliesh novels, continuing the series' pattern of dropping the poet-detective into a self-contained institutional setting where professional hypocrisies and buried histories come to the surface. It runs 254 pages, sitting between Cover Her Face and Unnatural Causes.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
A Mind to Murder is book 2 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Cover Her Face. It is followed by Unnatural Causes. See the full Adam Dalgliesh reading order.
Adam Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard Commander who is also a published, critically respected poet -- a deliberate pairing that lets P. D. James write murder mysteries with the density and moral seriousness of literary fiction. Across fourteen novels spanning nearly half a century, James sets her cases in tightly closed, institutional worlds -- a forensic science lab, a theological college, a private psychiatric clinic, a publishing house, a remote island retreat -- and uses the murder investigation to expose the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446348287
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780606224543