Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation packed with lies, suspicion and deceit. Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on ...
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Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation packed with lies, suspicion and deceit. Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange. From the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room, comes the fifth novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series, a thrilling work of crime fiction that explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. Set on the Dorset coast, The Black Tower possesses all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. This novel won the Silver Dagger award for crime fiction and was adapted into a television program in 1985 starring actors such as Roy Marsden, Pauline Collins and Martin Jarvis.
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Add this copy of The Black Tower to cart. $16.81, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Scribner Book Company.
Add this copy of The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #5) to cart. $16.84, fair condition, Sold by Orion Tech rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Scribner.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. 271 pages. First American Edition. Early Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Rear board a little wider than front, thin red line on lower page edges (possibly a remainder mark), else fine, in near fine dustjacket with tiny nick at upper edge of front panel, two short tear at lower folds to spine and rear flap. Signed by James on the title page.
Add this copy of The Black Tower to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Craig Olson Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Islesboro, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by P. D. James (1920-2014) on the title page. James' sixth novel. First American Edition. First Printing. 271 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light scuffing from shelf wear, closed tear at base of spine was repaired with cellophane tape at verso and is almost invisible from the front, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with gold titling. Very light strip of darkening along gutter from the glue used in production.
