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P.D. James’s debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery is a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley…
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P. D. James
As the acknowledged ‘Queen of Crime’, the author was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. In this book, four of the best…
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A beautiful new edition of one of P. D. James’s classic novels.
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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…
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time. As the…
Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery–and in love. As trustees of a small, private museum argue over whether it should…
A small, dark treat published for the first time in book form in celebration of what would have been P.D. James’ 100th birthday.
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In 1997, P. D. James turned 77. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson’s advice that at that age it is time to be in earnest , she decided, for the first…
From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre which has fascinated her…
Set in London, A Taste for Death is the seventh Adam Dalgliesh mystery from P.D. James, a compulsive thriller and a chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder.
James–one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today–gives a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers…
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery…
From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.
On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on…
A memoir of the author’s early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.
P.D. James’s only work of true crime: a historical mystery every bit as gripping as her bestselling novels.
The acknowledged ‘Queen of Crime’, P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to…
Set in the world of museums and galleries in London, The Murder Room is the twelfth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the…
In The Skull Beneath the Skin, the second Cordelia Gray mystery from P.D. James, Cordelia is hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress and soon becomes embroiled in a…
Reprint. Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet’s younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Plunged into frightening mystery and a lurid murder…
Set on the bleak fens of East Anglia, Death of an Expert Witness is the seventh novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of detective fiction from…
Set in her beloved East Anglia, Death in Holy Orders is the fourteenth novel in P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction filled with intrigue…
The Queen of Crime is at the peak of her powers with this Adam Dalgliesh mystery
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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…
From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, plus two cases for detective Adam Dalgliesh, these are masterfully…
A beautiful new edition of one of P.D. James’s most-loved works – the ideal place to start for a reader new to P.D James’s books.
Set in the future, this book portrays an England where human infertility has spread. By 2021 no babies have been born for 25 years - the aged are being driven…
A beautiful new edition of The Private Patient, published for the first time as a Faber Paperback.
Set on the banks of the River Thames in the literary world,P.D. James’s Original Sin is the ninth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of crime fiction from the…
Innocent Blood is a stand-alone thriller and chilling mystery from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.
Set in London, A Mind to Murder is the second novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the award-winning author of…
Set on the remote Suffolk coast, the third Adam Dalgliesh mystery Unnatural Causes is a thrilling work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes To…
Set in the medical world of hospitals and nursing schools in London, the fourth Adam Dalgliesh mystery Shroud for a Nightingale is a thrilling work of detective fiction from P.D…
Set on the Dorset coast, The Black Tower by P.D. James is the fifth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a thrilling work of crime fiction from the bestselling author of Death…
The late, great P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer.
Set in Cambridge, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the first of P.D. James’s novels to feature Cordelia Gray, a compulsive thriller and a chilling study of the complex…
The classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery.
Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 1992.
This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P.D. James’s novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization…
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ambitious new managing director…
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…
James Hogg
This 200th anniversary edition offers an illuminating and compelling account of the genesis of Hogg's masterpiece, and of the cultural, theological, geographical and historical contexts of this remarkable novel.
