Phyllis Dorothy James Book order (chronological)

"Sanctuary. It's the perfect town. . . to hide a secret. To Detective Maggie Knight, the death of Sanctuary's star quarterback seems to be a tragic accident. Only, everyone knows his ex-girlfriend is the daughter of a witch - and she was there when he died. Then the rumours start to fly. Bereaved mother Abigail will stop at nothing until she has justice for her dead son. Her best friend Sarah will do everything in her power to protect her accused daughter. And the women share a secret that could shatter their lives - and their community. It falls to Maggie to prevent her investigation - and Sanctuary itself - from spiralling out of control."--Publisher description.

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In Christian’s own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world. CHRISTIAN GREY exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty – until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him – past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart. Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?

From striped blazers to crisp button-down shirts, off-the shoulder jackets to tailored tuxedos, slinky leather skirts to sophisticated ballgowns. . . Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is rapidly becoming fashion's ruling queen of style.

'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. Took her away from you some people might say. Didn't you feel any grievance?I had been expecting this question. I knew exactly what I would say.'The late, great P. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer.

Für alle Liebhaber klassischer Kriminal-Romane gibt es noch einmal Neues von P. D. James zu entdecken: vier Krimi-Kurzgeschichten, die im Laufe der Jahre für Weihnachts-Ausgaben verschiedener Zeitschriften und Magazine entstanden sind, drei davon hier erstmals auf Deutsch. Mit einem Geleitwort von Val McDermid. • »Der Mistelzweig-Mord«, die titelgebende Story, handelt von einer Weihnachtsfeier im Landhaus, die unter keinem guten Stern steht • In »A Very Commonplace Murder« geht es um eine illegale Affäre, die mit Mord endet • Und »The Boxdale Inheritance« und »The Twelve Clues of Christmas« sind neue Fälle für P. D. Jamesʼ Kult-Ermittler Commander Adam Dalgliesh, der längst in die Krimi-Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist Diese vier Weihnachts-Krimis zeigen das ganze Können der englischen Bestseller-Autorin P. D. James, von ihrem eleganten Stil über ihre Akribie bis zum unbestechlichen Blick hinter alle Fassaden.

The acknowledged "Queen of Crime", P. D. James was a master of the short story, creating gripping, suspenseful tales. Sleep No More comprises six perfectly formed stories, published here together for the first time. As the murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. P. D. James shows her expert control of the short-story form, conjuring motives and scenarios with complete conviction, and delivering a satisfying twist every time.

There are four short gripping tales, which include a strained country house party on Christmas Eve and an illicit affair that ends in murder. House Beautiful

Маленькая колония литераторов потрясена чудовищным убийством. В лодке, прибитой к берегу, найден труп знаменитого автора детективных романов.Многоопытный следователь Адам Дэлглиш, приехавший погостить к своей тетушке, вынужден начать расследование. Вскоре он приходит к неожиданному выводу: каждому обитателю колонии есть что скрывать. Дэлглиш должен раскрыть жестокое преступление, иначе таинственный убийца нанесет новый удар…

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Two great literary minds - master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen - come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery, James creates a delightful mash-up that will intrigue any Janeite. From the bestselling author of The Murder Room, Children of Men and A Certain Justice, comes a wonderful mixture of the nation's greatest romance and best-loved crime fiction. In 2013, this novel was adapted as a miniseries by the BBC, starring Matthew Rhys as Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth Bennet and Jenna Coleman as Lydia Wickham.

The scar on Rhoda Gradwyn's face was to be the death of her . . . When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell’s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But the Manor holds a secret and deadly enemy. While she lies drowsily recovering from the anesthetic a white shrouded figure stealthily enters her bedroom and within minutes Rhoda is dead. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder, and later a second equally horrific death, find themselves confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt.

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 - the likes of Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. James also discusses many of her favourite famous detectives, from Sherlock Holmes to Philip Marlowe. P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room, presents a brief history of detective fiction and explores the literary techniques behind history's best crime writing.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. A welcome addition to the Dalgliesh canon, The Private Patient could have been written by no one other than P.D. James.

Every book tells a story And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935, and that continues to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin. highly praised crime novels for more than forty years, and Penguin is proud to publish them in paperback. Her most famous and enduring creation is the poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, and in Innocent House taken from Original Sin he is confronted with a suspicious death and a puzzle at a respected publishing house.

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.” As P. D. James writes in her Introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.”

A classic 'locked room' mystery from one of Britain's greatest crime writers

Mit diesem Krimi stellte P. D. James die Krimiszene auf den Kopf, indem sie die Rolle des Privatdetektivs zum ersten Mal mit einer Frau besetzte. Auftritt Cordelia Gray, die in der altehrwürdigen Universitätsstadt Cambridge einen vermeintlichen Selbstmord untersucht – und dabei in ein mörderisches Wespennest sticht. "Die größte Krimiautorin unserer Zeit …" Sunday Times

George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why? An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation, little more than a routine security check, was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Page Numbers Source ISBN: B000H305PK

Zo gauw duidelijk wordt dat een erfgenaam een privé museum wil verkopen, wordt hij vermoord en stuit inspecteur Dalgliesh op vele potentiële daders.

Un piccolo museo privato di Londra è al centro della nuova indagine di Adam Dalgliesh. Ereditato da tre fratelli, il museo ospita oltre a una preziosa collezione di quadri, reperti relativi a famosi delitti avvenuti a cavallo delle due guerre mondiali, contenuti in un'unica stanza: "la stanza dei delitti". Quando uno dei tre fratelli viene trovato carbonizzato nella sua auto, Dalgliesh scopre che costui si opponeva a tenere in vita il museo di famiglia e per questo è stato eliminato. Purtroppo questo è solo il primo di una serie di omicidi che nella loro escuzione richiamano quelli illustrati nella "stanza dei delitti". Chi sta sfidando l'ispettore Dalgliesh? E qual è il movente di tanta ferocia?

A small, private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required by the family trust to sign any new lease. Without the new lease the museum will have to close. One brother, Neville Dupayne, is adamant he won't sign. And then the housekeeper, Mrs Tally Clutton, discovers Neville's body in his still blazing car...

Great writers of crime fiction not only create memorable detective heroes, they also firmly establish them in a setting. The home counties town of King's Markham, for example, is the perfect patch for Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford and Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael is as inseparable from the cloisters of medieval Shrewsbury as John Harvey's D.I. Resnick is from the mean streets of modern Nottingham.

In veel misdaadverhalen speelt de vrouw een belangrijke rol, maar er zijn uiteraard ook talloze vrouwen die als auteur van misdaadverhalen een bijdrage geleverd hebben aan deze rijke traditie, met name in de achterliggende eeuw. In dit boek presenteert Elizabeth George, de meest toonaangevende vrouwelijke misdaadauteur van dit moment, haar keuze uit de beste verhalen van die vrouwen. Haar overzicht begint in Groot-Brittannië en het Gemenebest, waar de periode van 1920 tot en met de jaren vijftig 'the Golden Age of Mystery' genoemd wordt.

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 visit the young man's theological college, St Anselm's - a place he knew as a boy - expecting a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacreligious and horrifying murder.

Een minister trekt zich onverwacht terug uit het openbare leven en dat heeft gevolgen voor iedereen in zijn omgeving.

Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Vzpomínky živé legendy britské detektivní literatury, Phyllis Dorothy Jamesové, psané pozoruhodnou deníkovou formou.

Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author

A great Christmas gift for mystery lovers, this book brings together a lethal collection of 13 original mysteries by P.D. James, Simon Brett, Susan Moody and others. "A cozy collection of yule-tidings gone wrong."--"Publishers Weekly." Contents: Mugs / Margaret Yorke -- And broke his crown / David Williams -- Bearing gifts / Nicole Swengley -- Season of goodwill / Mike Seabrook -- More than flesh & blood / Susan Moody -- The proof of the pudding / Peter Lovesey -- Charades, anybody? / H.R.F. Keating -- The mistletoe murder / P.D. James -- Operation Christmas / Tim Heald -- A card or a kitten / Liza Cody -- Political corrections / Simon Brett -- Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard -- Gold, frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird.

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. Four weeks after agreeing to defend Gerry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Adam Dalgliesh investigates, only to find that her many enemies include colleagues, criminals, family - and even her lover.

In London, the managing director of a stately publishing house is found dead, a stuffed snake in his mouth. The suspects are many: a rejected author, a discarded mistress, a resentful employee, to mention just a few. Commander Adam Dalgliesh sifts through their lives and the company's finances in order to find the killer.

Lidstvo se žene do záhuby. Ztrácí schopnost reprodukce, miliony obyvatel jsou zasaženy nemocemi a ti zbývající se navzájem vraždí. Píše se rok 2021 a na Zemi se již pětadvacet let nenarodilo jediné dítě. Populace stárne, ubývá lidí i sil a Omegy, děti zrozené v posledním roce plodnosti Homo sapiens, rozhodně nepatří k vzorným občanům. Po celém světě se snaží vlády udržet pořádek a relativně klidný průběh zániku lidstva. O to má největší zájem Rada Anglie v čele s nevyzpytatelným Guvernérem Xanem. Však co se skrývá pod touto optimistickou maskou? Vypravěčem celého příběhu a hlavním protagonistou je Xanemův bratranec Theo Faron, historik žijící i v této podivné době ve svém malém světě univerzitního Oxfordu a v minulosti, která mu poskytuje možnost nepřemýšlet o tom, co se stane… Jednoho dne ale přijde výzva… Ve světě, který podlehl anarchii a násilí, je Theo pověřen důležitým úkolem. Musí ochránit možná poslední naději lidstva – mladou těhotnou ženu....

Dans cet étonnant roman, P.D. James imagine une Angleterre du futur gagnée par un fléau : la stérilité humaine. Xan Lyppiatt, dictateur charismatique et gouverneur d'Angleterre, Theo Faron, historien et cousin du gouverneur, et Julian, égérie d'un groupuscule clandestin, sont les acteurs de ce drame parfois terrifiant mais qui s'achève sur une note d'espoir.

This collection presents a compelling exploration of mortality through three interconnected narratives, each delving into the complexities of death and its impact on human lives. The stories are characterized by intricate plots, rich character development, and a deep examination of themes such as grief, loss, and the moral ambiguities surrounding death. In the first volume, the protagonist grapples with the sudden death of a loved one, leading to a profound personal transformation and a reevaluation of relationships. The second volume shifts focus to a detective investigating a series of enigmatic deaths, revealing the darker aspects of human nature and the societal implications of violence. The final volume intertwines the lives of several characters as they confront their own mortality, reflecting on choices made and the legacies left behind. Key characters include a grieving spouse, a determined detective, and individuals from varied backgrounds whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. Together, the narratives provide a multifaceted view of death, encouraging readers to reflect on their own experiences and beliefs regarding life’s inevitable end. The Trilogy of Death invites contemplation on the fragility of existence and the enduring human spirit in the face of loss.

P. D. James, die eigentlich Phyllis White heißt, schrieb unter ihrem Mädchennamen. Die 1920 in Oxford geborene Schriftstellerin war mit einem Arzt verheiratet und lange Zeit in der Krankenhausverwaltung tätig. So lernte sie das Milieu kennen, in dem zwei ihrer berühmtesten Krimis spielen. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes arbeitete sie in der Kriminalabteilung des britischen Innenministeriums. Mit ihren Kriminalromanen erwarb sie sich international große Anerkennung.

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.

Jeder verpatzte Erstkontakt kann der letzte sein Die Föderation ist eine geheimnisvolle Organisation aus elektronischen und biologischen Intelligenzen, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, unter den >>heranwachsenden<< intelligenten Spezies solche herauszusuchen, die sich für einen Zusammenschluß in einer galaktischen Superzivilisation eignen. Der Ort dieser Vereinigung ist eine Dysonsphäre im Herzen der Galaxis. Sie stellt ausreichenden Lebensraum und die notwendigen physischen Bedingungen für jedwede Lebensform zur Verfügung und soll optimal das Zusammenwachsen und eine Höherentwicklung denkender Materie garantieren. Doch nur die Friedfertigen sollen dieser Gnade teilhaftig werden. Aggressive und machtgierige Individuen bleiben ausgeschlossen. Martin und Beth werden von der Konföderation ausgewählt, um Erstkontakt mit besonders schwierigen Aliens herzustellen, um sie auf ihre Eignung zu testen - ein ebenso harter und gefährlicher wie verantwortungsvoller Job, denn jeder verpatzte Erstkontakt kann der letzte sein - jedenfalls für Martin und Beth. Heyne 06/4826

When 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.

De moord op een veelbesproken dienstbode brengt op een Engels landgoed de gemoederen in beroering.

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.

This set of three books by P.D. James includes: "A Mind To Murder"; "Cover Her Face"; and "Unnatural Causes". It forms part of Faber's "Threebies" series, which offers different sets of three titles, each set written by a best-selling author.

An omnibus volume of P.D.James' work which features "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman", "Death of an Expert Witness" and "Innocent Blood". The author has also written a special preface for this edition in which she reflects upon her work and the significance of the crime genre in which she writes.

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 student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. In Shroud for a Nightingale, award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Original Sin and Children of Men) plots a complex story of secrets, blackmail and suspicion. The novel was adapted for television in 1984, with Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Joss Ackland as the surgeon, Stephen Courtney-Briggs.

Hired to protect beautiful but neurotic actress Clarissa Lisle from a spate of poison pen letters, Cordelia Gray is unprepared for a case as deadly as it is mysterious.

An original novel of extraordinary power, Innocent Blood is the story of 18-year-old Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, who is plunged into a dangerous and terrifying world when she discovers the shocking truth about her natural parents - and learns that her birth mother is about to be released from prison. Innocent Blood is considered by many to be one of P.D. James' finest novels.

Inspecteur Adam Dalgliesh wordt te hulp geroepen, wanneer op een avond de niet erg geliefde administratrice van een psychiatrische kliniek vermoord wordt aangetroffen.

An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh responds to an invitation to visit an old family friend, the chaplain at a private home for the disabled in Dorset. Only to discover on his arrival that his host has died

AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break. However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a drifting dinghy to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation.

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).

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 murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ... The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardworking shopkeepers, along with their baby and shop boy. Twelve days later and only a few blocks away, an equally blameless pub owner was found together with his wife and servant, victims of equal cruelty and apparent absence of motive. The serial killings provoked nationwide notoriety and panic. With the atmosphere and pacing of her best novels, James reveals the rudimentary police system of Regency London coping with a major murder investigation -- and crimes that rank up there with Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, and Son of Sam as the very symbol of murderous and unthinking brutality.

On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is one of the most reputable institutions in Lindon. but when the administrative head is found dead with a chisel in her heart, that distinguished facade begins to crumble as the truth emerges. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh pf Scotland Yard is called in to investigate and quickly find himself caught in a whirlwind of psychiatry, sex, drug and deceit. Now he must analyse the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts has resulted in murder and stop a cunning killer before the next blow.

Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers and seemed ideal to help Mrs Maxie run a house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally was very different from the docile, repentant character she seemed to be. When a murder occurs, Chief Inspector Dalgliesh arrives.