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Summary: The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart. Death of an Expert Witness led Newsweek to crown P. D. James "the new queen of crime." Show more Show less
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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Summary: A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Summary: A famous mystery writer is found dead at the bottom of a dinghy, with both hands chopped off at the wrists. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, with help from his remarkable Aunt Jane, must discover who typed the writer's death sentence before the plot takes another murderous turn. Unnatural Causes inspired Cosmopolitan to fervently hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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Summary: Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh leaves London to vacation in Norfolk and becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the perpetrator of a series of murders of young women, which continues even after the murderer's capture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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Summary: Adam Dalgliesh was called to the elegant Steen Psychiatric Clinic to investigate why the body of Enid Bolan was found with a chisel through her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Summary: Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Summary: In London, the managing director of a stately publishing house is found dead, a stuffed snake in his mouth. The suspects are many: a rejected author, a discarded mistress, a resentful employee, to mention just a few. Commander Adam Dalgliesh sifts through their lives and the company's finances in order to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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Summary: Responding to an old friend's call, Commander Adam Dalgliesh travels to Toynton Grange, a convalescence home in Dorset, where he finds his friend dead and, himself weakened by a recent illness, encounters multiple murder and malicious intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a highly sensitive murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum. The circumstances of the case bear an unsettling similarity to the historical cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005