Talking about Detective Fiction, Hardback - P. D. James

From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre...

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 Christi...

With essays by an international group of scholars, Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction delves into the ways in which this genre, given its s...

A chilling murder mystery packed with forensic detail from the 'Queen of Crime' 'Ingenious.' Sunday Telegraph'Fiendishly clever.' Sunday Times'Spin...

My only regret is that I shan't be alive to savour my retrospective triumph. I savour it every day of my life. Follow the 'Queen of Crime' as she t...

Faber is celebrating its ninetieth year in publishing with a series of collectable pieces of short work from great writers past and present in a ra...

Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has never failed to solve a case. When he is called to the scene of a gruesome murder at a psychiatry clini...

Reducere. Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifyin...

Reducere. 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...

Reducere. National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible p...

Reducere. When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another o...

Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is vi...

An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryThe Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is cer...

Reducere. Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. James' classic mystery The Black Tower, hailed as...

A stand-alone thriller from P. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her ...

Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chapla...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguri...

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes...

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots ...

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 e...

Winner of the CWA Crime Awards Silver DaggerTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutal...

The first of P.D. James's novels to feature Cordelia Gray, set in Cambridge. A chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder. Is...

Reducere. Hailed as "mystery at its best" by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James's Adam Dalglies...

Reducere. The second book to feature Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh, A Mind To Murder is a "superbly satisfying mystery" (Chicago Daily News) from...

Her only work of true crime, this novel uses forensics, unpublished sources and forgotten documents to create a vivid image of early-nineteenth cen...

As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afterno...

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mys...

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglican coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-...

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Required to delve into the hidden secrets ...

Reducere. The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling auth...

Reducere. In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian ...

A highly topical look at how and why Islamophobia manifests itself and at what can be done to make our society a safe space for us allPublisher: Ha...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGuardian Book of the Month'This flawless masterpiece deserves to be a bestseller.' Daily Express'Tough, tense and twis...

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Epoque France to 21st-...

The second novel from Fiona Mitchell, author of the stunning The Maid's Room

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