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Bezig met laden... The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #5) (origineel 1975; editie 2001)door P. D. James
Informatie over het werkMeurtre dans un fauteuil / Un certain goût pour la mort (Les dames du crime) door P. D. James (1975)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. DS Adam Dalgliesh visits Toynton Grange, a small private nursing care facility, in response to a letter received from his old friend Father Baddeley. When he arrives, he discovered the man died a few days earlier and left him his book collection. He stays on a few days to sort and box the books and discovers other unexpected deaths in the facility's recent past. Then a suspicious fire takes place in a detached black tower on the property nearer the coastline. Soon another death occurs. Dalgliesh had recently been released from the hospital following a critical situation and decided to "retire" from his police career when this book begins. Readers still don't have resolution to that situation by the book's end. My biggest problem with the book was this was an unofficial snooping rather than a formal police procedural. There really wasn't an official crime through most of the book although Dalgliesh could see the tell-tale signs and was able to follow them. Dalgliesh, of course, solves the case, but this isn't one of my favorites. It reminds me a lot of "And Then There Were None" because of the small pool of suspects where one keeps dying. I listened to the audiobook, and Penelope Dellaporta always does a good job with this series. ( ) El detective Adam Dalgliesh ha estado alejado del servicio debido a una enfermedad, y ahora debe visitar a un antiguo amigo de la familia, capellán en una casa de reposo, para intentar recuperar la energía perdida. Sin embargo, apenas alcanzado su destino, deberá concentrar sus fuerzas en desvelar qué se oculta tras una serie de muertes en apariencia accidentales. Murderous Monks? Review of the Sphere Books paperback (1977 orig./1986 reprint) of the Faber & Faber hardcover original (1975) This, too, was a sensation which in the long dog days in hospital he had thought never to experience again, the frisson of excitement along the blood at the first realization that something important had been said, that although the quarry wasn't yet in sight nor his spoor detectable, yet he was there. He tried to reject this unwelcome surge of tension but it was as elemental and involuntary as the touch of fear. Scotland Yard CID's Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has decided to give up his police career after coming through a terminal scare due to a mis-diagnosis and a resulting hospital stay. For his convalescence, he takes up the invitation of Father Baddeley, an old family friend, to visit him at his cottage by the Toynton Grange Nursing Home. He arrives to find out that Father Baddeley has passed away from an apparent heart attack. This is shortly after a resident patient has apparently committed suicide by propelling his wheelchair off the nearby seaside cliff. Regardless of his planned change of career, Dalgliesh is drawn by instinct to further investigate the situation. Dalgliesh has an excuse to stay on at the cottage, as he has inherited the Father's book collection which needs sorting. The nearby Toynton Grange facility is a private nursing home run on a spiritual basis due to its founder Wilfred Anstey's miracle cure from Disseminated Sclerosis (an alernative name for Multiple Sclerosis). The caregivers all wear monk-like habits, there are regular prayer readings and twice annual pilgrimages to Lourdes in France to take the waters. Due to his recovering health Dalgliesh is perhaps a bit slow at first to piece together all of the clues surrounding the situation. The discovery of a series of poison pen letters further complicates matters and then there is yet another apparent natural death and yet another apparent suicide. Four deaths at the same facility in such close sequence can't possibly be natural and a coincidence surely? Dalgliesh manages to solve it all in the end but comes close to becoming the murderer's fifth victim. See cover at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/TheBlackTower.jpg Front cover of the original Faber & Faber hardcover edition (1975). Image sourced from Wikipedia. I read The Black Tower as part of my continuing 2022 re-read binge of the P.D. James' Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray novels, which I am enjoying immensely. James is truely at the height of the Silver Age of Crime authors and puts most modern mystery writers to shame with her extensive character backgrounds and plots often set in confined communities where an atmosphere of paranoia and foreboding reign, until the cool, often detached detection of Dalgliesh is able to arrive at a clarifying solution. See photograph at https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODc4YzQ0YzgtNTFhYy00OGVhLWI3OGYtYTZjYTJi... Actor Bertie Carvel as Adam Dalgliesh in the Acorn TV series "Dalgliesh" (2021-). Image sourced from IMDb. Trivia and Links * In Book 1 Cover Her Face, Adam Dalgliesh was a Detective Chief Inspector. In Books 2 to 4 he is a Detective Superintendent and then in Books 5 to 14 he is a Detective Commander. The Black Tower was adapted for television in 1985 as part of the long running Dalgliesh TV-series for Anglia Television/ITV (1983-1998) starring actor Roy Marsden as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. You can watch the 6 episodes of the 1985 adaptation starting with Episode 1 on YouTube here. The adaptation is reasonably faithful to the novel. The new Acorn TV-series reboot Dalgliesh (2021-?) starring Bertie Carver as Adam Dalgliesh filmed an adaptation of The Black Tower as Episodes 3 & 4 of Season 1. The adaptation is reasonably faithful to the novel, but it reduces the number of characters at the Toynton Grange Nursing Home, renames Julius Court as Julius Marsh, and adds a local Sergeant Miskin (who becomes a regular series character in Episodes 5 & 6). It has not yet been announced which books are being adapted for Season 2 (as of late July 2022). Season 1 adapted Books 4, 5 & 7. Dalgliesh is recovering from an extended illness, he decides to visit an old friend while he recuperates and reevaluates his life. This is not an action-packed story, although the end is pretty tense. I enjoyed the slow pacing. James has a way of description which not only tells you about the place, but sets the tone of the story as well.
Adam Dalgliesh på uhyggelig pleiehjem Dalgliesh i krise i en utsøkt kriminalintrige. «Det svarte tårnet» er en over tretti år gammel kriminalroman av den britiske sjangermesteren, og som vanlig overrasket hun leseren med et uvanlig plott. P.D. James bruker over halvparten av boka før Dalgliesh, eller vi for den saks skyld, egentlig vet om det har skjedd noe straffbart Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Adam Dalgliesh (5) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)rororo (5371) SaPo (297) Is opgenomen inCover her face; A mind to murder; Unnatural causes; Shroud for a nightingale; The black tower door P. D. James Deadly Pleasures: The Black Tower | Death of an Expert Witness | The Skull Beneath the Skin door P. D. James Heeft de bewerkingPrijzenErelijsten
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?"Splendid, macabre," wrote the London Sunday Telegraph. "The Black Tower is a masterpiece," the London Sunday Times concurred. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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