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The Black Tower

The Black Tower

The Black Tower

The Black Tower

by James, P. D

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New York: Warner Books. Very Good. 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Mild spine crease. 0.6 x 6.6 x 4.2 Inches. 284 pages. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more? .

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P. D. JAMES was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Black Tower
Author
James, P. D
Format/Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0446315028
ISBN 13
9780446315029
Publisher
Warner Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992
Keywords
FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, POLICE PROCEDURAL
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction / Mystery/Detective-MassMarketPB / Police Procedural;

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