The Black Tower

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name = The Black Tower
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author = P. D. James
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Adam Dalgliesh #5
genre = Crime, Mystery novel
publisher = Faber and Faber
release_date = 1975
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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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."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]

Prizes and awards

*1975 CRA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction.

References