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P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People 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...

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...

Rhoda Gradwyn, en frygtet, opsøgende journalist, bestiller tid på dr. Chandler-Powells privatklinik i Dorset for at få fjernet et skæmmende ar i ansigtet. Hun ser frem til en vellykket operation under en velrenommeret kirurgs kniv og en uges fredfyldt rekreation på et af Dorset mest pragtfulde godser. Hun ser også frem til et nyt liv. At hun ikke kommer til at forlade Cheverell Manor i live, er næppe en tanke, der strejfer hende.

Pemberley, le domaine ancestral de la famille Darcy, dans le Derbyshire, abrite le bonheur conjugal d'Elizabeth Darcy. Elle est la mère de deux charmants bambins ; sa sœur préférée, Jane, et son mari, Bingley, habitent tout près ; et son père adulé, Mr Bennet, vient régulièrement en visite. Mais cette félicité se trouve soudain menacée lorsque, à la veille du bal d'automne, un drame contraint les Darcy à accueillir la jeune sœur d'Elizabeth et son mari, que leurs frasques passées ont rendu indésirables.

"Døde nattergale" er fjerde bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Romanen foregår på en sygeplejeskole i en engelsk provinsby. En af de unge studerende dør, mens hun agerer patient under en praktisk øvelse - og senere findes endnu en sygeplejeelev død i sin seng. Adam Dalgliesh får til opgave sammen med sin assistent Masterson at finde ud, om der var tale om hændelige uheld, selvmord - eller måske mord. "Døde nattergale" udkom første gang i 1971.

The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919-1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether it should be closed, one of them is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second...

P.D. James und ihren Ermittler Adam Dalgliesh gibt es bei AUDIOBUCH nun im spannend-unterhaltsamen Dreierpack. In »Ein Spiel zu viel« wird auf Martingale Manor die Leiche des Hausmädchens Sally Jupp gefunden. Was hat es damit auf sich? In »Eine Seele von Mörder« wird ebenfalls eine Frauenleiche entdeckt, mit einem Meißel im Herzen, in einer vornehmen Nervenklinik. Diese stellt sich bald als Intrigennest heraus, das Dalgliesh einige Rätsel aufgibt. In »Ein unverhofftes Geständnis« freut sich Dalgliesh auf eine verdiente Pause.

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is...

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People 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...

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. Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “Complex and compelling.... James is writing in full mastery of...

No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private...

The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder”(Time), P.D. James, is now available on CD. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father...

The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son...

The sixth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series, which led Newsweek to crown P. D. James "the new queen of crime." An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless...

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage...

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. Part of the bestselling mystery series that...

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That...

"List og længsler" er ottende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Adam Dalgliesh ferierer ved Nordsøkysten i Norfolk, men dumper lige ned i problemerne omkring et nærliggende atomkraftværk og en bestialsk kvindemorder, som huserer på stedet. "List og længsler" udkom første gang i 1989.

En form for retfærdighed er tiende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard.

Advokaten Venetia Aldridge påtager sig at forsvare den unge Gary Ashe, som står anklaget for at have myrdet sin tante med koldt blod. Hun opfatter opgaven som rent rutinearbejde, en triviel lejlighed blandt mange til at brillere i retten og til at fremme sin i forvejen lysende karriere. Men sagen mod Gary Ashe udløser en kæde af frygtelige begivenheder, ingen havde kunnet forudse.

"Mord på laboratoriet" er sjette bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. En ung pige findes stranguleret i nærheden af det retsmedicinske laboratorium. Kort efter finder endnu et mord sted, men denne gang inden for laboratoriets mure. Kriminalkommissær Adam Dalgliesh tilkaldes, og snart kommer han på sporet af spændte modsætninger og barske forhold mellem laboratoriets mennesker. "Mord på laboratoriet" udkom første gang i 1977.