The Black Tower

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1975 by P. D. James

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This Touchstone trade paperback edition 2001

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DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Scribner Paperback Fiction edition as follows:

James, P. D.

The Black Tower / P. D. James. —1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.

p. cm.

1. Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—England—Fiction. 3. Dorset (England)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6060.A467 B5 2001

823'.914—dc21 2001032262

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-1961-7

ISBN-10: 0-7432-1961-9

ISBN-13: 978-1-45169-780-3 (eBook)