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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Deadly pleasures Deadly pleasures P. D. James Three masterly detective novels - Black tower., Death of an expert witness, Skull beneath the skin. OL15434322W
Death comes to Pemberley Death comes to Pemberley P. D. James Death Comes to Pemberly is a murder mystery based on the characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The novel joins Mr and Mrs Darcy after they have been married for six year and just as they… OL16345423W
Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul Freeman Wills Crofts,Thomas Burke,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Margery Allingham,Alfred McLelland Burrage,Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards,Georges Simenon,Simon Brett,Agatha Christie,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Arnold Bennett,William Somerset Maugham,P. D. James,John Collier,Isaac Asimov,Mann Rubin,Algernon Blackwood,Eddy C. Bertin,Jack London,Winston Graham,Maurice Level,Edmund Crispin,Jókai, Mór The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury Murder! / Arnold Bennett The kennel / Maurice Level We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin A thousand deaths / Jack London Back for Chri… OL17850834W
Sleep no more Sleep no more P. D. James An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep… OL19720210W
The Mistletoe Murder The Mistletoe Murder P. D. James "As the acknowledged "Queen of Crime," P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best have been collected together … OL20036173W
The Black Tower The Black Tower P. D. James Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. James’ classic mystery The Black Tower, hailed as “splendid, macabre” by the London Sunday Telegraph … OL510867W
A Certain Justice A Certain Justice P. D. James "Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal la… OL510869W
Cover Her Face Cover Her Face P. D. James When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to I… OL510872W
Death of a Expert Witness Death of a Expert Witness P. D. James Tras la muerte violenta de un forense mientras trabaja. Adam Dalgliesh debe hurgar en la intimidad de los científicos vinculados a la víctima por sus tareas, problemas e incluso celos profesionales. … OL510874W
Devices and Desires Devices and Desires P. D. James Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stre… OL510880W
Innocent Blood Innocent Blood P. D. James From Amazon.com: Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a lo… OL510891W
The Murder Room The Murder Room P. D. James Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years 1919-1939. One of the museum galleries displays exhibits from… OL510896W
Pristrastie k smerti Pristrastie k smerti P. D. James An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Mi… OL510917W
Death in Holy Orders Death in Holy Orders P. D. James From Amazon.com: From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight. On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college h… OL510942W
The Maul and the Pear Tree The Maul and the Pear Tree P. D. James,T. A. Critchley In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway m… OL510956W
Country House Murders Country House Murders Freeman Wills Crofts,C. Day Lewis,Philip MacDonald,P. G. Wodehouse,Arthur Conan Doyle,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,James G. Miles,Thomas Godfrey,Dorothy L. Sayers,Robert Barr,Wilkie Collins,Ruth Rendell,Ethel Lina White,Margery Allingham,Ngaio Marsh,Agatha Christie,P. D. James,John Dickson Carr,Thomas Godfrey,Michael Innes,Thomas Godfrey,R. Austin Freeman,Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy,Cyril Hare,Christianna Brand Contains: [Adventure of the Abbey Grange](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17084226W/Adventure_of_the_Abbey_Grange) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins Lord Chizelrigg's … OL6985458W
Omnibus Omnibus P. D. James The undisputed new queen of crime writers, P.D. James is now secure on the throne occupied by such great predecessors as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Here, for the first time in one jumbo volu… OL7986560W