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Series
Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Description
How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death...
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Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn't the only...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 11
Language
English
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On the bleak coast of East Anglia, 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 of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants--and in this case what he wants is for Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son's death. Although there...
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Language
English
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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 distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
10) The black tower
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A string of mysterious deaths catapults Dalgliesh into a maze of mystery, blackmail and murder.
Author
Publisher
Mystery Guild
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Language
English
Description
"Cover her face" a beautiful housemaid is murdered and detective Adam Dalgliesh must find her killer in a house full of her enemies. -- "A mind to murder" Adam tracks down to see who would have planted a chisel into her icy heart. -- "An unsuitable job for a woman" young detective Cordelia Gray is hired to disprove the "suicide" of a Cambridge graduate.
12) Cover Her Face
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Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Language
English
Description
P. D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.” –People
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
Cover Her Face is P. D. James’s electric debut novel, an ingeniously...
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
Cover Her Face is P. D. James’s electric debut novel, an ingeniously...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Books on Tape
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Commander Dalgliesh investigates a murder at a hospital nursing school, uncovering its secret world of sex and ambition.
17) The black tower
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more?
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