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.
Key facts about Shroud for a Nightingale
Shroud for a Nightingale is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 1971. It runs to 336 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Shroud for a Nightingale. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780770429119 to find the main one.
Shroud for a Nightingale is book 4 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
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