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.
Key facts about The Murder Room
P. D. James wrote The Murder Room, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 432 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781400042647 to find the main one.
The Murder Room is book 12 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 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