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Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of the island's lighthouse, murder - not suicide - is suspected. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are immediately called in: the investigation must be swift, discreet, decisive. However, Dalgliesh has his work cut out, since both residents and visitors to Combe Island guard their privacy well - even when murder makes them a suspect. Does the islanders' reticence betray a knowledge of the crime? Another death and Dalgliesh's own life in danger throws the entire investigation into jeopardy . . .
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The Lighthouse, Phyllis Dorothy James
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- Title
- The Lighthouse
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141044462
- ISBN13
- 9780141044460
- Series
- Adam Dalgliesh
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, British Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Islands, Cornwall, Lighthouses
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- The Lighthouse
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of the island's lighthouse, murder - not suicide - is suspected. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are immediately called in: the investigation must be swift, discreet, decisive. However, Dalgliesh has his work cut out, since both residents and visitors to Combe Island guard their privacy well - even when murder makes them a suspect. Does the islanders' reticence betray a knowledge of the crime? Another death and Dalgliesh's own life in danger throws the entire investigation into jeopardy . . .