This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorP. D. James
NarratorDaniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 12
Duration12h 44m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherFaber & Faber
VersionUnabridged
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer. The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham, but their relationship, at a sensitive stage for them both, is continually frustrated by the demands of his job. As step by step he moves closer to the murderer, is the investigation taking him further away from commitment to the woman he loves? Award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, The Murder Room and A Certain Justice) plots a thrilling work of crime fiction packed with intrigue and suspense. In 2004, this novel was adapted for BBC television and starred Martin Shaw as Adam Dalgliesh and Janie Dee as Emma Lavenham.
Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 15h 28m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 9h 59m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 10h 9m
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Talking About Detective Fiction
Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 4h 41m
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...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 8h 48m
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 delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender fam...
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 15h 20m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 7
Duration 16h 30m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 10h 27m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 11
Duration 13h 52m
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 12h 8m
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