P. D James
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Cordelia Gray mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When noted criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge turns up murdered after defending young Garry Ashe for the brutal killing of his mother, Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team struggle to unravel the case, which involves him in a series of deadly crimes linked to the complexities of the legal system.
In a masterful new Adam Dalgliesh mystery, P.D. James enters the labyrinthine world of the law, forging a deeply compelling human drama from the complex...
11) A mind to murder
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Adam Dalgluish was called to the elegant Steen Psychiatric Clinic to investigate why the body of Enid Bolan was found with a chisel through her heart.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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 writers as Colin Dexter and Sara Paretsky. She compares...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
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.
14) The black tower
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate when a government minister receives threatening letters. The Minister's own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush....
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
London, 2027. It's been eighteen years since baby Diego was born and now he is dead. As humankind faces extinction, a disillusioned Theo becomes an unlikely champion when he is asked by his former lover to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.
18) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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 will acquiesce. Theo is about to be tossed into a web...