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New edition of this Adam Dalgliesh mystery in which the commander investigates the murder of a family trustee of a small museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath.

The first of P.D. James's novels to feature Cordelia Gray, set in Cambridge. A chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder. Issued into the launch list of "Faber Modern Classics".

Im Jahr 1803, sechs Jahre nach der Hochzeit von Mr. Darcy und seiner Elizabeth, geht das Leben auf Pemberley seinen idyllischen Gang. Doch am Abend vor dem großen Herbstball wird die Vorfreude empfindlich gestört: Aus dem waldigen Dunkel des Parks bricht in rasender Fahrt eine Kutsche, darin eine völlig aufgelöste Lydia Wickham - Elizabeths missratene kleine Schwester -, die behauptet, ihr Mann sei ermordet worden! Bald wird klar dass allzu vi...

TV tie-in edition of P.D. James' bestselling crime novel which is being adapted for BBC1 this Autumn starring Matthew Rhys, Trevor Eve and Rebecca Front. 'An elegantly gauged homage to Austen and an exhilarating tribute to the inexhausitible vitality of James' imagination' "Sunday Times

Encuadernación: Piel. Colección: B de bolsillo. Lujo.Cuando la prestigiosa periodista de investigación Rhoda Gradwyn ingresa en Cheverell Manor, la clínica privada del doctor Chandler-Powell en Dorset, para quitarse una antiestética cicatriz que le atraviesa el rostro, sus planes son ser operada por un cirujano célebre, pasar una semana de convalecencia en una de las mansiones más bonitas de Dorset y comenzar una nueva vida. Nada le hace presa...

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Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: B de BolsilloTodo lo que Dalgliesh necesitaba era unas tranquilas vacaciones junto al mar, largos paseos, una taza de té al calor de la chimenea y, lo mejor de todo, nada de cadáveres ni pesquisas criminales. El hallazgo del cuerpo mutilado del escritor Maurice Seton echará por la borda todos los sue- ños del emblemático detective poeta creado por P. D. James y lo llevará, de incógnita en incógnita, a intenta...

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart.

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt dia...

This is the third book featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgleish. This time out he investigates the grisly death of famous mystery writer Maurice Seton.

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. "Cover Her Face" is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

Die Ruhe von Combe Island, einer abgeschiedenen Urlaubsoase für hochrangige Gäste aus Kultur und Politik, wird empfindlich gestört, als der weltberühmte Bestsellerautor Nathan Oliver aufgeknüpft am Leuchtturm der Insel gefunden wird. Oliver war jedoch nicht nur ein großer Literat - er war auch ein streitsüchtiger Egomane, dem es gelungen war, sich in kürzester Zeit sämtliche Inselgäste wie auch das Personal zum Feind zu machen. Jeder auf der I...

Die Staranwältin Venetia Aldrige erkämpft den Freispruch eines Mordverdächtigen. Vier Wochen später stellt ihre achtzehnjährige Tochter ihr diesen Mann als zukünftigen Schwiegersohn vor. Eineinhalb Tage später findet man Venetia erstochen an ihrem Schreibtisch. Doch nicht nur der Schwiegersohn in spe kommt als Täter in Frage...

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir."As a crime novel, " wrote the "London Times, Innocent Blood" is "the...

Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more? "Splendid, macabre, " wrote the "London Sunday Telegraph. "The Black Tower" is a masterpiece, " the "London Sunday Times" concurred.

To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for nearl...