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Adam Dalgliesh · Book 1

Cover Her Face

by P. D. James
Published
1 January 1962
Pages
254
ISBN-13
9783265478975
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about Cover Her Face

Cover Her Face is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 1962. It runs to 254 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Cover Her Face. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9783265478975 to find the main one.

Cover Her Face is book 1 of 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. The series has 14 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

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

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…

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