The Lighthouse
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 426
- ISBN-13
- 9780307275738
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Lighthouse (2005) is the thirteenth Dalgliesh novel, published as the Dalgliesh-Lavenham romance moved toward its resolution in the series' final two books. At 426 pages, it follows The Murder Room and precedes The Private Patient.
Key facts about The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 2005. It runs to 426 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Lighthouse. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307275738 to find the main one.
The Lighthouse is book 13 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 Lighthouse is book 13 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows The Murder Room. It is followed by The Private Patient. 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 9780307275738