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Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. But on the eve of a ball, chaos descends. Lydia Wickham, Elizabeth's disgraced sister who, with her husband, has been barred from the estate, arrives in a hysterical state--shrieking that Wickham has been murdered.

On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down not only the events and impressions of her extraordinarily active life, but also the memories, joys, discoveries, and crises of a lifetime. This enchantingly original volume is the resu...

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La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en aquel rincón campestre de Martingale, era el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp encontrara un trbajo adecuado y pudiera criar a su hijo sin grandes sobresaltos. La señora Maxie necesitaba ayuda para cuidar de su marido invalido, pero por lo demas, regentar aquella casa tenía que ser una tarea agradable y muy tranquila. Sin embargo, un horrible crimen acabaría pronto con la paz hogareña y las i...

Adam Dalgliesh tendrá que desvelar en esta ocasión el misterio que rodea el asesinato de dos hombres a los que la muerte ha unido, pero que en vida raramente habrían coincidido: un barón y un vagabundo alcohólico. Antes de alcanzar su objetivo, no obstante, deberá enfrentarse a un crimen que conmueve la opinión pública e introducirse en las mansiones de la enigmática clase alta londinense. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAdam Dalgliesh unravels the murder ...

El recién nombrado Sargento Dalgliesh enfrenta un caso que es "Agatha Christie en estado puro"... La secreta adicción a la pornografía de un empleado "pedante, respetable y censurador" es la razón por la trata de evitar que lo citen como testigo en un caso de asesinato... Una escritora de novelas de misterio de mucho éxito relata el crimen en el que ella misma se vio envuelta cincuenta años antes... El padrino de Dalgliesh le implora que vuelv...

In James's stellar 14th Adam Dalgliesh mystery, the charismatic police commander investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a 47-year-old journalist murdered soon after undergoing a routine procedure at a plastic surgery clinic in Dorset.

Rhoda Gradwyn, giornalista investigativa, ha molto successo e pochissimi amici. È un personaggio scomodo per molti: le sue scottanti inchieste, sempre ben documentate, producono spesso effetti negativi, se non addirittura tragici, sulle esistenze delle persone che ne sono loro malgrado protagoniste. Quando decide finalmente di liberarsi di una cicatrice che le deturpa il viso da molti anni, la donna si affida a un celebre chirurgo plastico e a...

L'ispettore Dalgliesh ha ricevuto in eredità un solitario mulino a vento sul promontorio di Larskoken. Un'ottima soluzione per le vacanze dell'ispettore, che sogna solo di lasciare la caotica Londra in cerca di riposo e silenzio. Sogni vani, perché in quell'angolo remoto d'Inghilterra un inafferrabile pazzo omicida ha seminato il terrore con una serie di delitti all'ombra inquietante di una centrale nucleare in cui si è verificato un misterios...

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant b...

Dalla penna della regina del crimine, quattro racconti inediti, tradotti per la prima volta in italiano. "Un delitto per Natale", "Un omicidio così banale", "L'eredità Boxdale", "Dodici indizi per Natale". Introduzione di Val McDermid.

Il dottor Edwin Lorrimer, medico legale, appare a tutti come una persona fredda, razionale, un gelido, efficientissimo scienziato. Ma il giorno in cui il suo cadavere viene trovato brutalmente massacrato, il suo ambiguo passato inizia a tornare a galla. E del dottor Lorrimer affiora un'immagine insospettabile. Principale indiziato dell'omicidio è un collega del medico, ma l'ispettore Dalgliesh sa che non bisogna mai fidarsi delle apparenze e c...

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In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and T. A. Critchley draw on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources, expertly sifting the evidence to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery.

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a facial scar, she expected a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon and a week's convalescence in a beautiful manor house. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate, but when a second murder occurs, the situation raises an even more complicated problem than the q...

The main attraction of Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years (1919-1939), is an unsettling Hall of crime are studied the most notorious cases of the time. Their interest is clear, but Neville, the youngest brother Dupayne considers the institution to close its doors. Uncertainty about the continuity of the museum creates an unbearable tension, which will break when they discovered the charred body of Neville. ...

National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill le...

This introductory study presents Racine's Phedre as the culmination of French classical tragedy.