The Black Tower
by James, P D
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0722151101
- ISBN 13
- 9780722151105
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Sphere Books Limited. Good+. 1985. Reprint; Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some creasing to cover and slightly slanted spine, small ink price to front endpaper. ; Thirteenth printing. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo by Mark Gerson. ; 288 pages; Hoping for a little investigation to enliven his convalescence, Commander Adam Dalgliesh accepts an invitation from an old friend to visit Dorset and solve a problem. But when he arrives at Toynton Grange, a private home for the disabled, he discovered that his host has died suddenly. Other more mysterious deaths follow, and he finds that the Grange is an enclosed world seething with malice, intri gue, hatred and murder. .
Synopsis
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
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 262
- Title
- The Black Tower
- Author
- James, P D
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Reprint; Thirteenth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0722151101
- ISBN 13
- 9780722151105
- Publisher
- Sphere Books Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Mass Market PB, Murders And Mysteries
- Bookseller catalogs
- Murders And Mysteries;
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