Introduction:
Step into the world of Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, where murder lurks in both the bustling streets of London and the quiet countryside. From locked-room mysteries to chilling deaths in small towns, Dalgliesh must unravel dark secrets and bring justice to light, no matter how twisted the path.

Titles In This Set:
A Mind to Murder
Unnatural Causes
Shroud for a Nightingale
Cover Her Face
The Black Tower

Description:

A Mind to Murder:
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has never failed to solve a case. When he is called to the scene of a gruesome murder at a psychiatry clinic in London, he finds it in lockdown: no one has entered or left the building since the discovery of the body.

Unnatural Causes:
Battered by the conclusion of a particularly brutal murder case in London, Superintendent Adam Dalgleish decides to escape to the countryside for a hard-earned break. But before long, the discovery of the mutilated body of a local crime writer sends shock waves through the small town of Monksmere, where Dalgliesh is staying.

Shroud for a Nightingale:
When secrets get out, no one is safe . . .On a crisp January morning, a group of third year nursing students gathers early for a clinical lesson. They have no idea that they are about to witness the gruesome murder of one of their classmates. Before the month is over, another student turns up dead, this time of an apparent suicide.

Cover Her Face:
When the body of Sally Jupp is discovered in her bedroom - the door bolted from the inside - the occupants of Martingale house are sure that the blame for this unthinkable crime will fall on an unknown intruder. But each of them is hiding something.

The Black Tower:
Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died.