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 reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder . . . A best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier . . . Dalgliesh's godfather implores him to reinvestigate a notorious murder that might ease the godfather's mind about an inheritance, but which will reveal a truth that even the supremely upstanding Adam Dalgliesh will keep to himself. Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author's sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex--not to say the most damning--aspects of human nature. A treat for P. D. James's legions of fans and anyone who enjoys the pleasures of a masterfully wrought whodunit.From the Hardcover edition.

Product Description: La redaccion de esta original autobiografia -escrita en forma de un diario que incluye las memorias- se inicia el 3 de agosto de 1997, el dia en que P.D. James (Phyllis Doroty James) cumple 77 anos, y finaliza el 3 de agoso de 1998, es decir, al cabo de un ano...read more

Product Description: Dalgliesh must solve the double murder of two very different kinds of victims: one an illustrious former member of Parliament, the other an alcoholic derelict. "Her best and most ambitious tale to date."--Time. Reissue.

Adopted at age eight, Philippa Palfrey learns that she is the daughter of a rapist and a murderess who is soon to be paroled from a life sentence for killing a child whose father seeks revenge

Product Description: La muerte llega a Pemberley, el homenaje de P. D. James a Orgullo y prejuicio, de Jane Austen, ha sido recibido en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos como un autentico acontecimiento literario Pemberley, ano 1803. Han pasado seis anos desde que Elizabeth y Darcy se casaran, creando un mundo perfecto que parece invulnerable...read more

Product Description: Adam Dalgliesh regresa a East Anglia, donde paso su juventud, para investigar la muerte de un seminarista que estudiaba en la Universidad de Saint Anselm. El detective y poeta debera descifrar la clave que le ofrece una de las victimas para hallar al asesino...read more

Product Description: Los asesinos no suelen avisar a sus victimas. Esta muerte en particular, por terrible que fuera el ultimo segundo de pasmosa compresion, llego misericordiosamente libre de terror anticipado. Cuando en la tarde del miercoles, 11 de septiembre, Venetia Aldridge se puso en pie para repreguntar al principal testigo del fiscal en el caso del Estado contra Ashe, solo le quedaban cuatro semanas, cuatro horas y cincuenta minutos de vida...read more

Product Description: Tras la muerte violenta de un forense mientras trabaja, Adam Dalgliesh debe hurgar en la intimidad de los cientificos vinculados a la victima por sus tareas, problemas e incluso celos profesionales. Todos son especialistas en el comportamiento de la muerte y en desenmascarar a un criminal con un microscopio o un tubo de ensayo...read more

During his investigation of another crime, the senior biologist in a Cambridgeshire forensic medical laboratory is murdered and an investigation of his private life leads to many suspects

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of seemingly impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the venerable Peverell Press. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies-a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of whom apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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 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 sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.   Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.   Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it.

Product Description: A la orilla del Tamesis, y en una replica de un palacio veneciano construido en 1830, se halla la editorial Peverell Press, una austera empresa familiar que un joven frances, emprendedor y ambicioso, se ha propuesto relanzar con todos los recursos del marketing y la comunicacion modernos...read more

Product Description: Cuando la prestigiosa periodista de investigacion Rhoda Gradwyn ingresa en Cheverell Manor, la clinica privada del doctor Chandler-Powell en Dorset, para quitarse una antiestetica y antigua cicatriz que le atraviesa el rostro, sus planes son ser operada por un cirujano celebre, pasar una tranquila semana de convalecencia en una de las mansiones mas bonitas de Dorset, y comenzar una nueva vida...read more

Product Description: Adam Dalgliesh tendra que desvelar en esta ocasion el misterio que rodea el asesinato de dos hombres a los que la muerte ha unido, pero que en vida raramente habrian coincidido: un baron y un vagabundo alcoholico. Antes de alcanzar su objetivo, no obstante, debera enfrentarse a un crimen que conmueve la opinion publica e introducirse en las mansiones de la enigmatica clase alta londinense...read more

Product Description: Grandes autores han incluido misterios y crimenes en sus historias. La autora repasa los origenes de la ficcion detectivesca, la atraccion que sentimos por el crimen, y la satisfaccion por las soluciones logicas, por el descubrimiento de la verdad tras el misterio...read more

Product Description: When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence...read more

Product Description: A hideous scream pierces the calm of the evening psychotherapy session. The body of a woman lies sprawled in the basement of the Steen clinic, a chisel thrust through her heart. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, gently relaxing at a literary party close by, hurries over to investigate the murder...read more

In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.P. D. James examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie (“arch-breaker of rules”), Josephine Tey, Dashiell Hammett, and Peter Lovesey, among many others. She traces their lives into and out of their fiction, clarifies their individual styles, and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they’ve created, from Sherlock Holmes to Sara Paretsky’s sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American Golden Age mystery writing. She discusses detective fiction as social history, the stylistic components of the genre, her own process of writing, how critics have reacted over the years, and what she sees as a renewal of detective fiction—and of the detective hero—in recent years.There is perhaps no one who could write about this enduring genre of storytelling with equal authority and flair: it is essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.

Product Description: 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...read more

Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.From the Trade Paperback edition.