This is the first PD James novel, and by way of that fact, the first of the Adam Dalgliesh detective series. This is from an omnibus collection that also collect the second novel in the series A Mind to Murder, which I read a few months ago, and a later novel Shroud for a Nightingale. In the introduction to the collection James talks about why she chose these three novels: the first because she was able to produce a novel she felt worthy of publication, […]