The Lighthouse

James, P.D.

ISBN 10: 030726291X / ISBN 13: 9780307262912

Published by New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

About this Item

2005 Knopf hardcover stated 1st American edition implicit 1st printing flatsigned by the author on the title page. No dj, staining on cover, ffep missing, separation starting and small stain on front pastedown, numbers on back ep, underlining, stains and corner folds on some pages, for all that, still quite readable. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1496267521821

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lighthouse
• Publisher: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030726291X
• ISBN 13: 9780307262912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James’s novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.

About the Author

P. D. James is the author of 18 books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain’s Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 2000 she celebrated her 80th birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest.