P. D James
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 14
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn turns up dead after seeing renowned plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell for a routine surgical procedure, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is one of the most reputable institutions in London. But when the administrative head is found dead with a chisel in her heart, that distinguished facade begins to crumble as the truth emerges. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate and quickly finds himself caught in a whirlwind of psychiatry, drugs, and deceit. Now he must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.--
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 4
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
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.
12) The murder room
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 12
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a trustee of the Dupayne, a small private London museum locked in a battle over its future, and find their probe complicated by a second corpse.
13) Unnatural causes
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When a detective novelist is discovered drifting toward shore in a dinghy, his hands cut off at the wrists, the members of the little literary coterie who knew him must each prove his innocence to the vacationing Dalgliesh.
14) The murder room
Author
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum bearing an unsettling similarity to past murder cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.
16) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.