The Private Patient
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 460
- ISBN-13
- 9780141044477
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Private Patient (2008) is the fourteenth and final Adam Dalgliesh novel -- the last book P. D. James wrote before her death in 2014 -- and closes the series with Dalgliesh's marriage to Emma Lavenham after their courtship in the preceding books. It runs 460 pages, following The Lighthouse.
Key facts about The Private Patient
The Private Patient is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 460 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Private Patient. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780141044477 to find the main one.
The Private Patient is book 14 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 Private Patient is book 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows 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 9780739328200
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141044477