Adam Dalgliesh · Book 3
Unnatural Causes
- Published
- 1 January 1967
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780722149577
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1967, four years after A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes is the third Dalgliesh novel, continuing P. D. James's approach of literary, morally serious detective fiction set within a single closed community. At 256 pages, it precedes Shroud for a Nightingale.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Unnatural Causes is book 3 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows A Mind to Murder. It is followed by Shroud for a Nightingale. 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 9780722150436
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780722149577