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- Verlag: Chivers Audio Books (Januar 1990)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0745160700
- ISBN-13: 978-0745160702
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The Black Tower is a mystery novel that successfully explores despair. Adam Dalgliesh finds himself recovering from a debilitating atypical mononucleosis that had been inaccurately diagnosed as being fatal. While thought he was about to die, Dalgliesh takes a look at his life as detective . . . and decides there has to be something more.
Determined to resign from the force, his intention is interrupted by a request to visit for help from an old family friend, Father Baddeley.
Wondering what sort of evil Father Baddeley cannot handle on his own, Dalgliesh is shocked to find that his friend had died of natural causes shortly after Dalgliesh sent a note accepting the invitation. Baddeley's will leaves his money to Toynton Grange, a facility specializing in the progressively disabled, which really needs the money . . . and his books to Adam. Dalgliesh is surprised to find that the father's desk has been forced and that the latest part of his journal has disappeared. Adam decides to look around for some hint as to what the problem might have been that caused Father Baddeley to consult him.
Dalgliesh's instincts are aroused when he discovers that a patient, Victor Holroyd, had also died . . . but under strange circumstances just before Father Baddeley did.
Dalgliesh decides to use the excuse of packing up his books to hang around and see what he can learn. His black mood is continued by his interactions with the austere staff at Toynton Grange and the disabled people. Although Adam puts a brave face on his contacts with these disabled people, even they know that he's terribly disgusted by their deformities.
Having spent more time there, Dalgliesh learns a depressing story about the Victorian folly, the Black Tower, that exists near the grange.
As all of this bleakness serves to further depress Dalgliesh, he finds himself unable to understand what Father Baddeley was concerned about.
Meanwhile, other unexpected deaths occur. Dalgliesh seems even more at a loss than ever . . . until a clear spot opens up in his depression . . . and he's able to start thinking like a police investigator again. That leads to an exciting, memorable finish to the novel . . . one of P.D. James' best.
My main complaint about this novel is that Baroness James stretches the bleakness a little too far and a little too long for my taste. She got the mood across so well . . . that I found myself getting depressed reading the book.
The mystery itself isn't terribly mysterious, but it's adequate to carry the rest of the story. The mystery is well told, though, because the reader is given lots of insights into what's really going on to serve as a contrast to Dalgliesh's haze. Otherwise, this would have been a most boring and unrewarding novel.
Determined to resign from the force, his intention is interrupted by a request to visit for help from an old family friend, Father Baddeley.
Wondering what sort of evil Father Baddeley cannot handle on his own, Dalgliesh is shocked to find that his friend had died of natural causes shortly after Dalgliesh sent a note accepting the invitation. Baddeley's will leaves his money to Toynton Grange, a facility specializing in the progressively disabled, which really needs the money . . . and his books to Adam. Dalgliesh is surprised to find that the father's desk has been forced and that the latest part of his journal has disappeared. Adam decides to look around for some hint as to what the problem might have been that caused Father Baddeley to consult him.
Dalgliesh's instincts are aroused when he discovers that a patient, Victor Holroyd, had also died . . . but under strange circumstances just before Father Baddeley did.
Dalgliesh decides to use the excuse of packing up his books to hang around and see what he can learn. His black mood is continued by his interactions with the austere staff at Toynton Grange and the disabled people. Although Adam puts a brave face on his contacts with these disabled people, even they know that he's terribly disgusted by their deformities.
Having spent more time there, Dalgliesh learns a depressing story about the Victorian folly, the Black Tower, that exists near the grange.
As all of this bleakness serves to further depress Dalgliesh, he finds himself unable to understand what Father Baddeley was concerned about.
Meanwhile, other unexpected deaths occur. Dalgliesh seems even more at a loss than ever . . . until a clear spot opens up in his depression . . . and he's able to start thinking like a police investigator again. That leads to an exciting, memorable finish to the novel . . . one of P.D. James' best.
My main complaint about this novel is that Baroness James stretches the bleakness a little too far and a little too long for my taste. She got the mood across so well . . . that I found myself getting depressed reading the book.
The mystery itself isn't terribly mysterious, but it's adequate to carry the rest of the story. The mystery is well told, though, because the reader is given lots of insights into what's really going on to serve as a contrast to Dalgliesh's haze. Otherwise, this would have been a most boring and unrewarding novel.
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Another James puzzler with twists in the telling as well as the tale. Like that of "Unsuitable Job for a Woman" this book's plot is not a simple and straightforward murder mystery. In fact, for a good portion of the book one wonders if in fact there is a mystery, let alone a murder, except that, this being a James' Dalgleish there must be. Dalgleish has been in hospital for suspected leukemia ~ thank goodness a misdiagnosis! ~ and, asked, plans to visit his father's old curate in Dorset during his convalescence. Father Michael Badderly is priest in residence at Toynton Grange, a small (and getting smaller) home for terminally ill patients. There are a number of varyingly sinister characters living in and around the Grange, and it is in the interplay of these people that the story unfolds. Suffice it to say that, by the end, Dalgleish's intuition is proven again, he rescinds his decision to leave the Force, and the evil ~ if not the foolish ~ are punished.
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The fact that Adam Dalgliesh, the detective hero of James's "The Black Tower" never really SOLVES anything is indicative of the half-hearted nature of the rest of this novel. There are some interesting psychological portraits here if you can see your way through the hazy, credibility-stretching dialogue. But the thrill is lacking...we see every murder coming from miles away, and by the time the culprit finally makes himself clear, we are not only unsurprised, but fairly bored.
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none more black
Death-obsessed even by murder mystery standards, I don't think this novel was as cozy as I wanted. Nonetheless, it's morosely insightful stuff on its own terms. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
One of her best!
I have read many of Ms. James' books, but this is one of the older ones I had trouble finding. I finally found it in a used book store and have not been disappointed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
A mystery novel about mysterious murders in Dorset, England.
Being the first of the P.D. James novels I have read, I was taken at once by the depth each character in this mystery. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Unusual, interesting and kept my interest to the end.
As a native Dorset resident, I found it authentic and compelling. It didn't keep me up at night.
Am 17. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Engrossing storyline-gothic atmosphere.
PD James takes, as usual, a cast of characters and makes them come alive. She takes a depressing, very off-putting scenario, a nursiing center for chronically ill or disabled... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. August 1998 veröffentlicht
James delves into the creepy--and succeeds
"The Black Tower" is arguably the creepiest of P. D. James's works! In addition to having the highest number of murder victims, the novel has a claustrophobic... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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