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P. D. James is the author of 18 books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain’s Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 2000 she celebrated her 80th birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest.
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The Private Patient
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Lighthouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the island’s famous lighthouse in what appears to have... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the island’s famous lighthouse in what appears to have... Read more >
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Original Sin
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a... Read more >
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The Private Patient
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Devices and Desires
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
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 stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
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 stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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A Taste for Death
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Children of Men
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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The Murder Room
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees... Read more >
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A Certain Justice
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister’s wig on her... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister’s wig on her... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD.
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Death in Holy Orders
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s... Read more >
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Death in Holy Orders
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $7.99
On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgleish, the son of a parson, once spent... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $7.99
On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgleish, the son of a parson, once spent... Read more >
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The Private Patient
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $44.95
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $44.95
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Private Patient
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Father Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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Time to Be in Earnest
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $13.95
On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down not only the events and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $13.95
On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down not only the events and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Children of Men
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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A Certain Justice
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $34.95
Read P.D. James in Large Print!
It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $34.95
Read P.D. James in Large Print!
It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Lighthouse
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $27.95
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $27.95
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
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... Read more >
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The Murder Room
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $44.95
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James’s formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $44.95
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James’s formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether... Read more >
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Talking About Detective Fiction
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Lighthouse
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $15.00
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $15.00
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
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... Read more >
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The Private Patient
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Time to Be in Earnest
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Talking About Detective Fiction
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Death in Holy Orders
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $7.99
The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $7.99
The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands... Read more >
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