P. D James
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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 optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's...
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The setting: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where 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 and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants-and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son's...
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 12
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English
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The Dupayne Museum, founded by Max Dupayne, is dedicated to the preservation of England's history between the world wars. As the museum's trustees, Max's three heirs -- Marcus, Neville, and Caroline -- debate the fate of the Dupayne. Brash psychiatrist Neville is determined to close it down, a position that is bitterly opposed by his two siblings. When Neville is found heinously murdered, Commander Adam Dalgliesh of the Special Investigation Squad...
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Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty-seven-year-old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discovers a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on life around Cheverell Manor.
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2016.
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English
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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time—swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment."
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." . . . A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first...
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." . . . A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first...
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 1
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
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2001, c1962
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English
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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.
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It's not always a question of "whodunit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren't brought down even though they're found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2009
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English
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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...
10) A mind to murder
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 2
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
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2001, c1963
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English
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Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is murdered, and in the course of his investigation learns of the anxieties and desires of the clinic's patients and staff.
11) The lighthouse
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
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Nelson Olmsted "Sleep No More! Famous Ghost and Horror Stories"
Included in audiobook:
The Signal Man By Charles Dickens
The Mummy's Foot By Theophile Gautier
Markheim By Robert Louis Stevenson
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge By Ambrose Bierce
What Was It? By Fitz-James O'Brien
The Body Snatcher By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dalgliesh volume 4
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English
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In the wake of another death tied to the law chambers, the police interrogate everyone, uncovering connections between the victims and witnesses. But as they sort the significant from the coincidental, time is running out to save Octavia from Ashe.
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Dalgliesh volume 5
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English
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Marcus and Caroline Dupayne struggle to convince their brother, Neville, to renew the lease on their family's museum. When Neville's car is torched on the museum grounds and he perishes inside, all who work there are suspects-including his siblings.
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Dalgliesh volume 3
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English
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Not long after securing an acquittal for Garry Ashe in his aunt's murder, controversial defense barrister Venetia Aldridge is fatally stabbed. Suspicion falls on her colleagues, with whom she fought, and on her daughter's fiancé-none other than Ashe.
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Dalgliesh volume 1
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English
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A girl's body is found in a remote part of Norfolk. The postmortem seems routine, but shortly afterwards the senior biologist at the forensics lab is murdered. DCI Adam Dalgliesh and DS Kate Miskin are called in to lead the inquiry.
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Dalgliesh volume 2
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English
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Another dead body is discovered, staged to look like a suicide. Dalgliesh and Miskin begin to untangle a web of rivalries and infidelities within the rural community, unearthing a killer with secrets to hide and tracks to cover.
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Dalgliesh volume 6
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English
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The grisly discovery in the trunk provides a new line of inquiry that leads to a hidden room, ties to intelligence agents, and a scandalous society at the heart of the museum. The team race to crack the case as the killer prepares to strike again.