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A Taste for Death by P.D. James
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Dalgliesh arrives to begin his investigations.
A Taste for Death by P.D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivit ...Show more
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh 1) by P. D. James
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
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 to m ...Show more
Death of an Expert Witness ( Adam Dalgliesh 6 ) by P.D. James
$19.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a ...Show more
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is ter ...Show more
Original Sin by P.D. James
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and h ...Show more
Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh 4) by P.D. James
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
The Black Tower ( Adam Dalgliesh 5 ) by P.D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | 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 Lighthouse by P. D. James
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
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 visi ...Show more
The Murder Room by P.D. James
$36.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his ...Show more
The Murder Room by P D James
$23.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries
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 time--when he is call ...Show more