The Adam Dalgliesh Series

He first appeared in 1962 in Cover Her Face. 13 books later and P. D. James's principal protagonist Adam Dalgliesh is still going strong.

Adam Dalgliesh thrillers

Adam Dalgliesh thrillers

  • The Black Tower by P. D. James

    The Black Tower
    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 ...

  • A Certain Justice by P. D. James

    A Certain Justice
    Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in ...

  • Cover Her Face by P. D. James

    Cover Her Face
    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY St Cedd's Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, ...

  • Death of an Expert Witness by P. D. James

    Death of an Expert Witness
    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's ...

  • Devices and Desires by P. D. James

    Devices and Desires
    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 ...

  • The Lighthouse by P. D. James

    The Lighthouse
    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 ...

  • A Mind to Murder by P. D. James

    A Mind to Murder
    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the ...

  • The Murder Room by P. D. James

    The Murder Room
    Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years 1919-1939. One of the museum galleries displays exhibits ...

  • Original Sin by P. D. James

    Original Sin
    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 ...

  • P. D. James Omnibus by P. D. James

    P. D. James Omnibus
    An omnibus edition of three of PD James' best-loved and best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires and Original Sin.

  • The Private Patient by P. D. James

    The Private Patient
    'You know you're in the company of P. D. James from the first sentence: elegantly phrased, plot-driven, multi-layered and laced with menace.' Observer

  • Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James

    Shroud for a Nightingale
    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, ...

  • A Taste for Death by P. D. James

    A Taste for Death
    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a ...

  • Unnatural Causes by P. D. James

    Unnatural Causes
    Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing ...
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