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Devices and Desires by P.D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | 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
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery 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 ...Show more
Shroud for a Nightingale by P.d. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who h ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
17.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A Washington Post Notable Book When it comes to crime, it's not always a question of "who dunnit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or the how. And what about the clever few who carry out what appears to be the perfect crime? Or whose most essential selves are changed by the crimes they com ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | 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
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales Audio by P. D. James
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are avenged, a murder in the small hours of Christmas Day puts an end to the vicious new lord of the manor, and, from the saf ...Show more
Talking About Detective Fiction by P. D. James
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre, from the birth of the detective story, through Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, to the golden age of crime and the rise of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingha ...Show more
The Black Tower by P.d. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the p ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
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Category: Fiction
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, unti ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
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 Lighthouse by P. D. James
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | 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 Lighthouse by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is found hanging in the island's lighthouse, and the islanders realise it is murder, not suicide. As Adam Dalgl ...Show more