Adam Dalgliesh · Book 14
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.
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