Enderby's Dark Lady, or, No End to Enderby is a 1984 novel by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...

, the final volume in the Enderby series.

The character was killed off in the third book, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End

The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End

The Clockwork Testament is a novella by the British author Anthony Burgess. It is the third of Burgess' four Enderby novels and was first published in 1974 by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Publishers. It is usually subtitled Enderby's End, as it was originally intended to be the last book in the Enderby...

(1975), but Burgess later considered this a mistake and brought the character back for one more book.

Although Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard

Anatole Paul Broyard was an American writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays and two books during his lifetime...

of The New York Times considered the book funny and clever, he concluded that it was "not as good as the previous three books."