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Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh 4) by P.D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Amongst the blackmail, lies and hastily kept secrets of the Nightingale nursing school, another s ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, a further six of P. D. James's ingenious short stories are published here together for the first time.As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their come ...Show more
The Black Tower ( Adam Dalgliesh 5 ) by P.D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
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Category: General
Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021. Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of E ...Show more
The Children of Men (Revolutionary Writing) by P.D. James
$14.99 AUD
Category: General
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until ...Show more
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
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 i ...Show more
The Murder Room by P. D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close ...Show more
The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Cordelia Gray
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the second novel to feature the famous female detective Cordelia Gray of the Pryde Detective Agency. Set on the sinister Courcy Island, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacul ...Show more
Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh 3) by P.D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgl ...Show more