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.
Key facts about Unnatural Causes
P. D. James wrote Unnatural Causes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1967. The book has 256 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780722149577 to find the main one.
Unnatural Causes is book 3 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
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