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Devices and Desires by P.D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
When Commander 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. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is ter ...Show more
Innocent Blood by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
A stand-alone thriller from P. D. James. 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 enters a new and te ...Show more
Original Sin by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded ...Show more
Original Sin by P.D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and h ...Show more
Shroud for a Nightingale by P.d. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
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. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who h ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
17.99 AUD
Category: Crime
A Washington Post Notable Book When it comes to crime, it's not always a question of "who dunnit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or the how. And what about the clever few who carry out what appears to be the perfect crime? Or whose most essential selves are changed by the crimes they com ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime
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
Taste for Death by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
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, thier 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 ...Show more
The Black Tower by P.d. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the p ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, unti ...Show more
The Detection Collection (The Detection Club) by The Detection Club (includes Colin Dexter; Robert Goddard; Reginald Hill; P. D. James; ed. Simon Brett)
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club. The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing ta ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is found hanging in the island's lighthouse, and the islanders realise it is murder, not suicide. As Adam Dalgl ...Show more