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On the following morning Martingale and the village are shocked by the discovery of Sally's body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English country life. In Cover Her Face, award-winning P.D.

Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation packed with lies, suspicion and deceit.

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly secrets.

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.

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.<, P>, <, I>, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman<, /I>, introduces P. D. Ja...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills."The New York Times" called "Shroud for a Nightingale" "mystery at it...

Eine lange und erfolgreiche Ära geht zu Ende. Und Grave Digger und GUN Records ziehen ein Resumée. Das Ergebnis: Grave Digger - Masterpieces. Diese DVD plus vereinigt die besten 80 Minuten von Grave Digger auf einem Silberling mit allen Grave Digger Videos + 8 Live Videos mit blendendem Sound. Und so gestaltet sich dann auch das Tracklisting. Angefangen bei Tracks wie z.B. "The Reaper" vom gleichnamigen Album oder Symphony Of Death von der EP ...

The Peverall Press, a venerable publishing firm occupying a mock-Venetian palace on the Thames in London, has a new managing director, the brilliant but ruthless Gerard Etienne, a man with enemies. When Etienne is found dead in bizarre circumstances, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is faced with a plethora of suspects, and a murderer prepared to kill again.

An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart. "Death of an Expert Witness" led "Newsweek" to crown P. D. James "the new queen of crime.

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Encuadernación: Rústica.Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción, Entre los empleados y pacientes de la entidad reina una desconfianza generada por chantajes y secretos, y se esconde también un asesino.

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Encuadernación: RústicaVenetia Aldridge no sólo ha conseguido convertirse en una autoridad en la defensa de casos criminales particularmente complicados, sino que ha llegado a ser una mujer muy temida.Dado que con el aumento de su fama ha crecido también el número de sus enemigos, cuando aparece asesinada, el inspector Dalgliesh se verá obligado a estudiar una larga lista de sospechosos que incluye a colegas, clientes y personas de su círculo ...

Come è nata la narrativa poliziesca? Quali sono stati i momenti cruciali nello sviluppo del genere? Quali i meccanismi caratteristici? E ancora, quali le ragioni della sua popolarità? E il futuro di questo amatissimo genere, ormai entrato di diritto nell'ambito della "Letteratura"? A tutti questi interrogativi risponde una grande autrice di gialli, P. D. James, che in queste lezioni non solo traccia una breve "biografia" della detective fictio...

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In un'isoletta al largo della Cornovaglia, sede di un esclusivo resort frequentato da politici e vip, viene trovato morto uno degli ospiti, Nathan Oliver, un famoso scrittore. Ma quando l'ispettore Dalgliesh dà inizio alle indagini e si accorge che la vittima era odiata da tutti, un altro residente dell'isola, il segretario dell'amministratore del resort, viene ucciso a colpi di pietra. E come se non bastasse, lo stesso ispettore Dalgliesh si ...