Genre: Fiction

Published: 1 August 1975

Publisher: Faber & Faber, Penguin

International Rights have been sold to Brazil/Companhia das Letras, Canada/Knopf Canada, China/Inner Mongolia People’s Publishing, Czech Republic/Albatros Media, France/Librairie Artheme Fayard, Finland/Werner Sodertrom Osakeyhtio, Holland/Meulenhoff Boekerij, Italy/Mondadori Libri, Japan/Hayakawa Shobo, Norway/H Aschehoug, Poland/Foksal, Romania/Editura RAO, Russia/AST Publishers, Spain/Ediciones B, US/Scribner

The Black Tower

by The Estate of P.D. James

It was, Adam Dalgliesh thought, uncommonly inconsiderate, if not negligent, of his doctors to reconcile him so thoroughly to death and then change their minds.

Unsettled by this brush with death and disenchanted with his job in the Force, Commander Adam Dalgliesh accepts an invitation to visit an old friend, the chaplain of a private home for the disabled, only to discover that his host has died suddenly. When other deaths follow, Dalgliesh senses that what had been founded as an abode of love is rapidly becoming a staging post for death.

Other Books by The Estate of P.D. James

The Part-Time Job

Sleep No More

The Mistletoe Murder and other stories

Death Comes to Pemberley

Talking About Detective Fiction

The Private Patient

The Lighthouse

The Murder Room

Death in Holy Orders

Time to be in Earnest

A Certain Justice

Original Sin

The Children of Men

Devices and Desires

A Taste for Death

The Skull Beneath The Skin

Innocent Blood

Death of an Expert Witness

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Shroud for a Nightingale

Unnatural Causes

A Mind to Murder

Cover Her Face

The Maul and the Pear Tree