P. D James

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

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It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's...

2) The lighthouse

Author

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

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Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is found hanging from Combe's famous lighthouse. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult...

3) The private patient

Author

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

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Description

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.

4) The murder room

Author

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

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5) Crime times three: three complete novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard

Author

Pub. Date

1979

Physical Desc

782 pages in various pagings ; 22 cm

Language

English

6) Murder in triplicate: three complete novels by the queen of crime

Author

Pub. Date

1980

Physical Desc

236, 216, 271 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

7) Time to be in earnest: a fragment of autobiography

Author

Pub. Date

2000

Edition

1st American ed.

Physical Desc

xii, 269 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm

Language

English

8) A certain justice: an Adam Dalgliesh mystery

Author

Language

English

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Description

When lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a man for murder, the case appears open and shut. But when Aldridge is found dead in her office, Dalgliesh and his team must make sense of events.

9) The mistletoe murder: and other stories

Author

Language

English

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Collected in this book are four murder mystery short stories by P.D. James, all centered around Christmas and two of which feature the young poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh. In the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. In "A Very Commonplace Murder," a "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward...

10) Death in holy orders

Author

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

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11) Sleep no more: six murderous tales

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Language

English

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