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Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) Fiction Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character) Fiction Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) Fiction Detective and mystery stories Dorset (England) Fiction England London (England) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Police England Fiction Police England London FictionJames, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction James 2017Summary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: In 1970s England, Dalgliesh and his junior, DS Kate Miskin, investigate the murders of a forensic scientist, a controversial lawyer, and a young doctor at odds with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction James 2011James, P. D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1987
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M JamJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, P. D.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, P. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JamesJames, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 JAMJames, P. D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf 1997
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M JAMJames, 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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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JAMJames, P. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction James 2001James, P. D.
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JAMJames, P. D.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, 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: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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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