The Lighthouse
Once again New Scotland Yard Detective Adam Dalgliesh is called upon to use his tactful and discretionary skills to solve the murder of a famouse novelist, Nathan Oliver, on an inaccessible island off the Cornish coast. His body is found hanging from the lighthouse on the Combe Island. Oliver was born on Combe Island, but he was far from its "favorite son." Many people on the island had good reason to dislike Oliver. As Dalgliesh falls ill with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome contracted from an ill German visiting the island, he discovers another murder. His colleagues Kate Miskin and Francis Benton-Smith must work the case while Dalgliesh recovers.
P. D. James' quirky island characters and descriptions of this remote island help set the moody atmosphere of this novel.
About the Author:
P. D. James
P. D. James spent over thirty years in Britain's Civil Service and Police and Criminal Law Department of the British Home Office. She has been the recipient of numerous honors and prizes in Great Britain during her lifetime, and in 1991 she was created Baroness James of Holland Park. She was awarded the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America in 1999.
Adam Dalgliesh was an investigator for New Scotland Yard when James introduced him in her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. Dalgliesh has been promoted to Commander Dalgliesh in the latest James novels.
P.D. James, whose full name is Phyllis Dorothy James White, was born in London, England in 1920 and makes her home there.
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