Adam Dalgliesh · Book 1
Cover Her Face
- Published
- 1 January 1962
- Pages
- 254
- ISBN-13
- 9783265478975
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cover Her Face (1962) is the book that opened P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh series, introducing the reserved, poetry-writing Scotland Yard Commander who would investigate cases inside one tightly closed institutional world after another across the next fourteen novels and nearly half a century. At 254 pages, it's followed by A Mind to Murder.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Cover Her Face is book 1 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It is followed by A Mind to Murder. 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 9789997517999
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783265478975