The Black Tower
- Published
- 1 January 1975
- Pages
- 290
- ISBN-13
- 9780722150283
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Tower (1975) is the fifth Dalgliesh novel, sitting between Shroud for a Nightingale and Death of an Expert Witness in P. D. James's sequence of self-contained mysteries built around closed institutional worlds. It runs 290 pages.
Key facts about The Black Tower
P. D. James wrote The Black Tower, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1975. The book has 290 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780722150283 to find the main one.
The Black Tower is book 5 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
The Black Tower is book 5 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Shroud for a Nightingale. It is followed by Death of an Expert Witness. 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 9780722150283