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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery | Series: Cordelia Gray | Reading Level: very good
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 delv ...Show more
Death Comes To Pemberley by P D JAMES
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Category: Crime & Mystery | Reading Level: very good
P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted detective story. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, E ...Show more
Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Tie-In) by P. D. James
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Category: Contemporary
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth 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 ...Show more
Death of an Expert Witness ( Adam Dalgliesh 6 ) by P.D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a ...Show more
Innocent Blood by P.D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery
Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa embarks on a thrilling investigation, enters a new and terrif ...Show more
Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh 4) by P.D. James
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Category: British/Scottish/Irish Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
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 s ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
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Category: Crime & 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
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
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Category: Crime & 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 Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery
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 i ...Show more
The Private Patient by P.D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery | Reading Level: very good
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dor ...Show more
The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
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Category: Crime & Mystery | Series: Cordelia Gray
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the second novel to feature the famous female detective Cordelia Gray of the Pryde Detective Agency. Set on the sinister Courcy Island, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacul ...Show more
Time to be in Earnest by P. D. James
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Category: Literary
In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s ...Show more