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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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0571107311. Near fine in a very good+ DJ. (Short edge nicks & traces of light shelfwear at corners of DJ. ) Author's SIXTH book.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 271 pages.
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Good in Fair jacket. 271pp. Gray boards, gilt golden lettering on spine. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Jacket is unclipped. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Minimal overall book shelf/timewear, boardwear, faint pageblush. Some jacketwear, jacket edgewear and edge tears, abrasions.
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Very Good- jacket. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED; signed and inscribed by author P.D. James on front endpaper. First Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket; creasing and stress at extrems; overall clean and bright in brodart. Gilt-stamped gray paper covered boards; bottoms corners slightly bumped; gentle softening to spine ends; internally very clean; binding tight. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
