Adam Dalgliesh · Book 4
Shroud for a Nightingale
- Published
- 1 January 1971
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780770429119
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shroud for a Nightingale (1971) is the fourth entry in the Adam Dalgliesh series, arriving four years after Unnatural Causes and, at 336 pages, one of the longer early novels as James's dense, fully realised prose style matured. It's followed by The Black Tower.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Shroud for a Nightingale is book 4 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Unnatural Causes. It is followed by The Black Tower. 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 9780571204700
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780770429119