This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorP. D. James
NarratorDaniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 7
Duration16h 30m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
Winner of the CWA Crime Awards Silver Dagger. 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 sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.
Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 3
Duration 1h 57m
Set on the remote Suffolk coast, the third Adam Dalgliesh mystery Unnatural Causes is a thrilling work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley. An unfinished manuscript. A murder stranger than fiction. Battered by the conclusion of a particularly brutal murder case in London, Superintendent Adam Dalglies...
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Talking About Detective Fiction
Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 4h 41m
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There are chapters on great American crime writers...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 8h 48m
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender fam...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 9h 59m
When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak f...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 15h 12m
Devices and Desires by P.D. James is the eighth Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Set against the remote Norfolk coastline under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nucl...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 1
Duration 7h 12m
Cover Her Face is P.D. James’s debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men. St Cedd’s Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organisi...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 10h 9m
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Set in the medical world of hospitals and nursing schools in London, the fourth Adam Dalgliesh Mystery is a thrilling work of detective fiction from the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Children of Men. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But wh...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 15h 28m
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Set on the banks of the River Thames in the literary world, P. D. James' Original Sin is the ninth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of crime fiction from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley. The Peverell Press, a 200-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thame...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 15h 20m
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Set on the banks of the River Thames in the literary world, P. D. James' Original Sin is the ninth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of crime fiction from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley. The Peverell Press, a 200-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thame...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 2
Duration 7h 30m
Set in London, A Mind to Murder is the second novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the award-winning author of Death Comes To Pemberley and Children of Men.
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