Adam Dalgliesh · Book 12
The Murder Room
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9781400042647
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Murder Room (2003) is the twelfth Dalgliesh novel, continuing the developing relationship between Dalgliesh and Emma Lavenham introduced in the previous book while James returns to her familiar territory of a single closed institution. It runs 432 pages, between Death in Holy Orders and The Lighthouse.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
The Murder Room is book 12 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Death in Holy Orders. It is followed by The Lighthouse. 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 9783426196588
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781400042647