| Author | P. D. James |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Adam Dalgliesh #5 |
| Genre(s) | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman |
| Followed by | Death of an Expert Witness |
The Black Tower is an Adam Dalgliesh novel by P.D. James, published in 1975.
Plot outline
"Adam Dalgliesh, convalescing after a severe illness, arrives at Toynton Grange (Dorset coast), the rest home for the young disabled, just too late to find out why his old friend Father Baddeley had sent for him. The monk-robed Wilfred Anstey and his staff are an odd lot, as are the few patients, all in wheelchairs. There's already been a suspicious suicide, and Dalgleish is not satisfied that the old priest's death was caused by myocarditis alone. Handicapped by poor health, he finally manages to unearth the secret of the grange. Unpleasant people, but good final scenes."[1]
Prizes and awards
- 1975 CRA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction.
References
- ^ Barzun, Jacques and Taylor, Wendell Hertig. A Catalogue of Crime. New York: Harper & Row. 1971, revised and enlarged edition 1989. ISBN 0-06-015796-8
Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James |
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| Cover Her Face • A Mind to Murder • Unnatural Causes • Shroud for a Nightingale • The Black Tower • Death of an Expert Witness • A Taste for Death • Devices and Desires • Original Sin • A Certain Justice • Death in Holy Orders • The Murder Room • The Lighthouse |
