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.
Key facts about A Mind to Murder
P. D. James wrote A Mind to Murder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1963. The book has 254 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780606224543 to find the main one.
A Mind to Murder is book 2 of 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with Cover Her Face (1962).
Additionally, P. D. James writes Cordelia Gray as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death Comes to Pemberley is the latest published P. D. James book on file, from 2011.
About P. D. James
P. D. James (1920-2014), full name Phyllis Dorothy James, was a British crime novelist best known for the Adam Dalgliesh series, fourteen novels following a Scotland Yard detective who is also a published poet, and widely credited with elevating the classic English detective novel into more psychologically serious, literary territory. See every P. D. James book in order.
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