James, P. D.

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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James, P. D.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001

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James, P. D.

Summary: The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993

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James, P. D.

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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James, P. D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001

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James, P. D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1987

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James, P. D.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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James, P. D.

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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James, P. D.

Summary: Hired as a bodyguard to faded actress Clarissa Lisle, the recent recipient of numerous death threats, Cordelia Gray accompanies the actress to an island castle, whose owner collects funeral paraphernalia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1982

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James, P. D

Summary: Four previously uncollected stories include two featuring the author's popular detective hero, Adam Dalgliesh, in his early years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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James, P. D.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002

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James, P. D.

Summary: 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio Publishing 2011

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James, P. D.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990

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James, P. D.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001

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James, P. D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003

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James, P. D.

Summary: P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and bringing us into the present with such...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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James, P. D.

Summary: Adam Dalgliesh and his two young assistants search for clues in the deaths of two men found in the vestry of a London church--one rich and elegant, the other an alcoholic tramp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1986

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James, P. D.

Summary: It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997

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James, P. D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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James, P. D.

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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James, P. D.

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001

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