Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates comple...
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Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler's fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be...
The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is br...
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate the bizarre murder of a guest at a stylish retreat on Combe Island off the Cornish coast.
Dalgleish investigates the murder of a criminal lawyer a month after she defends a man accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, and the case grows stranger when one of the small group of suspects is also murdered.
"A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--Swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and ...
"As the acknowledged "Queen of Crime," P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best have been collected together for the first time in one volume. P. D. James's understanding of human nature ill...
Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate the murder of an investigative journalist at a private clinic in Dorset.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to investigate the death of Sir Alred Treves son. No sooner does he arrive, however, the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself ineluctably drawn into the labyrinth of an intricate and violent mys...
Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is ki...
Dalgliesh seeks to solve the murder of a woman who went to a clinic in Dorset for surgery to have a facial scar made less conspicuous, and whose murder is followed by another.
"A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--Swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and ...
Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James's latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller. Life imitates art. The redoubtable Commander Adam Dalgliesh is on the trail of a murderer whose MO mimics a museum exhibit. The Dupayne, a small London museum devoted to the interwar y...
Set in 1979, the third instalment of Dalgliesh sees Commander Adam Dalgliesh take on three highly charged and highly sensitive cases. In Death In Holy Orders, he investigates the bloody murder of a senior churchman in a seminary in West Sussex an institution already engulfed in s...