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P. D. James
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P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - died November 27, 2014, Oxford) , British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard.
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
P D JAMES - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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No one gets inside the head of the murderer - or makes it a more thrilling read - than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley... |
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The Mistletoe murder : and other stories
P D James - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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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... |
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Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their... |
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The Private Patient
P.D. James - Vintage; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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National BestsellerCheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation... |
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A Certain Justice
P D James - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times BestsellerWhen distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead... |
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Death in Holy Orders
P D James - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found... |
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The Lighthouse, No. 13
P. D. James - Alfred A. Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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A Taste for Death
P.D. James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest... |
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The Murder Room
P D James - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James's latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that... |
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Devices and Desires
P D James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard... |
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Cover Her Face
P.D. James - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as the greatest living mystery writer. Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains... |
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
P D James - Scribner Classics
Format: Book
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P. D. James is "the reigning mistress of murder." -- "Time" Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle,... |
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