Details Containing Books The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
| Title | : | The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5) |
| Author | : | P.D. James |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | October 2nd 2001 by Scribner (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Detective. European Literature. British Literature |
P.D. James
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4 | 14978 Users | 422 Reviews
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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.
Mention Books As The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
| Original Title: | The Black Tower |
| ISBN: | 0743219619 (ISBN13: 9780743219617) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Adam Dalgliesh #5 |
| Characters: | Adam Dalgliesh, Grace Willison, Dennis Lerner, Maggie Hewson, Julius Court, Wilfred Anstey, Eric Hewson, Henry Carwardine |
| Setting: | Dorset, England |
| Literary Awards: | CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction (1975) |
Rating Containing Books The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
Ratings: 4 From 14978 Users | 422 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
Maybe ★★★ 12.Adam Dalgliesh learns a little something about false diagnoses. Then he goes to visit a friend who apparently died just before he arrives. The friend was working as a counselor/priest at a nursing home (?) for quadriplegics at a converted estate. But the bodies keep falling and they all appear to be natural causes. There were too many for natural causes to have killed them all.All this while Adam is considering leaving the Met. This was okay but as I was listening to this today, II don't understand how anyone can like this book. Take the spitefulness of Melrose Place, add the sex appeal of Confederacy of Dunces, and sprinkle on the inanity of a Jane Austen heroine (none of it in a good way) and you've got The Black Tower. Who would ever do any of the things that the characters do in this book? And they do boring things, by the way, nonsensically boring - the worst kind of boring. Let's eat together every night in silence except for we'll take turns reading boring stuff
I liked this one with the exception of a couple of problems. They'll seem major but since I tend to like characterization more than plot, for me they weren't. The first is how did Dagliesh come to his conclusion (and how did the murderer for that matter know he had?)? Did I miss something? The second is the long-winded confession that seems to happen a lot in these books.
DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE AND HER PEERSBOOK 63 - 1975Please, is this to be the P.D.James book that explains her popularity to me?CAST - 2 stars: Big problem here. The voice of the author is right up front, on the first page. She hasn't introduced a character yet, but writes about medical students: "... with their long hair and short white coats, they looked like a gaggle of slightly disreputable bridesmaids..." Darn those Beatle- inspired haircuts from 1965 infecting a 1975 crop of doctors! Then the
A short take:James writes sensual prose, while Dalgliesh continues to pull me in. I didn't go for his resolution to leave police work, but then, I know that 9 more books follow this volume, so there were no stakes in this prospect for me. As usual, the mystery, itself, is secondary to the character histories that manifest during the ensuing investigation. James is very good at writing about people and the complicated muddle they make of their lives. Murder is nasty; reading this book was
The first book of my 2019 P.D. James read-a-thon is done.I saw the film adaptation years ago, so it was playing along in my head as I was reading the story. So it made the book even more enjoyable. I forgot what happened in the ending, so I had a delightful surprise with the ending. Now onto the next one.
I know I do not like English writers in the vein of "Let's describe everything down to the atomic level" and I think this book was one of the worse I have ever read for that. It was a book club choice, so I finished but think of it was 20 hours or more of my life I will Never get back!
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