Segui l'ispettore Adam Dalgliesh, un detective amante della poesia, mentre si addentra in intricati casi di omicidio sullo sfondo della società inglese. Questa serie fonde magistralmente la suspense di un'indagine di polizia con una profonda intuizione psicologica, esplorando i segreti oscuri che si nascondono sotto la superficie della vita perbene. Ogni episodio offre narrazioni meticolosamente elaborate, studi approfonditi dei personaggi e ambientazioni suggestive, rendendola una lettura avvincente per gli appassionati del classico giallo.
Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers and seemed ideal to help Mrs Maxie run a house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally was very different from the docile, repentant character she seemed to be. When a murder occurs, Chief Inspector Dalgliesh arrives.
On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is one of the most reputable institutions in Lindon. but when the administrative head is found dead with a chisel in her heart, that distinguished facade begins to crumble as the truth emerges. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh pf Scotland Yard is called in to investigate and quickly find himself caught in a whirlwind of psychiatry, sex, drug and deceit. Now he must analyse the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts has resulted in murder and stop a cunning killer before the next blow.
Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer--but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre neighbours: the cruel and cynical drama critic, the celebrated recluse, the rakish young heir, the terrified woman waiting for her killer in a lonely house... It is up to Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh and his extraordinary aunt to discover the shocking truth about Seton's past--before the plot takes another murderous turn.
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. Amongst the blackmail, lies and hastily kept secrets of the Nightingale nursing school, another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. In Shroud for a Nightingale, award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Original Sin and Children of Men) plots a complex story of secrets, blackmail and suspicion. The novel was adapted for television in 1984, with Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Joss Ackland as the surgeon, Stephen Courtney-Briggs.
Una scrivania con la serratura rotta, un diario sparito, una stola indossata come per confessare... Bastano questi dettagli per sospettare che padre Baddeley, vecchio e malandato sia stato ucciso? Anche se l'ispettore Adam Dalgleish ne dubita, la morte colpisce altri ospiti della comunità di Toynton Grange con un tempismo perfetto. Troppo perfetto per essere naturale. Ma qual è il movente? Chi è il colpevole? Un invalido sulla sedia a rotelle? Un medico con un passato da cancellare? Un'infermiera troppo energica? Quando Dalgleish trova le risposte giuste, è forse troppo tardi. Ha di fronte a sè un diabolico assassino. E lo deve affrontare a tutti i costi. Un intreccio sottile e perverso, una storia ad altissima tensione.
Il dottor Edwin Lorrimer, medico legale e consulente di tribunali, appare a tutti come una persona fredda, razionale, un gelido, efficientissimo scienziato. Ma il giorno in cui il suo cadavere brutalmente massacrato viene ritrovato nel laboratorio in cui lavora, il suo ambiguo passato inizia a tornare a galla. E del dottor Lorrimer appare un'immagine insospettabile. Principale indiziato dell'omicidio, avvenuto in una stanza chiusa a chiave, è un collega del medico. Ma l'ispettore Dalgliesh, chiamato a indagare, sa che non bisogna mai fidarsi delle apparenze. Ancora una volta imparerà che la natura umana è più complessa di quanto sembri. E che a volte anche l'indizio più lampante non basta per risolvere un caso...
A mystery novel about a detective investigating the murder of two men, whose bodies were found in a church.
L'ispettore Dalgliesh ha ricevuto in eredità un solitario mulino a vento sul promontorio di Larskoken. Un'ottima soluzione per le vacanze dell'ispettore, che sogna solo di lasciare la caotica Londra in cerca di riposo e silenzio. Sogni vani, perché in quell'angolo remoto d'Inghilterra un inafferrabile pazzo omicida ha seminato il terrore con una serie di delitti all'ombra inquietante di una centrale nucleare in cui si è verificato un misterioso suicidio. Ce n'è quanto basta per rovinare la quiete dell'ispettore, soprattutto quando accanto al suo mulino viene commesso un altro delitto... Inevitabile è il coinvolgimento di Dalgliesh che si trova così trascinato in una nuova, difficile indagine e in una sfida elettrizzante con il delitto.
Sulle rive del Tamigi, in un antico palazzo sede della Peverel Press, la più illustre casa editrice inglese, l'ispettore Adam Dalgliesh deve confrontarsi con un intreccio all'apparenza inestricabile di odio, risentimenti, relazioni corrotte o degradanti, e con un assassino che non esita a colpire di nuovo.
When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to visit the young man's theological college, St Anselm's - a place he knew as a boy - expecting a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacreligious and horrifying murder.
Commander Adam Dalgleish is called in to investigate the murder of one of the trustees of the Dupayne Museum.
In un'isoletta al largo della Cornovaglia, sede di un esclusivo resort frequentato da politici e vip, viene trovato morto uno degli ospiti, Nathan Oliver, un famoso scrittore. Ma quando l'ispettore Dalgliesh dà inizio alle indagini e si accorge che la vittima era odiata da tutti, un altro residente dell'isola, il segretario dell'amministratore del resort, viene ucciso a colpi di pietra. E come se non bastasse, lo stesso ispettore Dalgliesh si ritrova inaspettatamente in grave pericolo di vita...
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. A welcome addition to the Dalgliesh canon, The Private Patient could have been written by no one other than P.D. James.
Weihnachtliche Kriminalgeschichten
Für alle Liebhaber klassischer Kriminal-Romane gibt es noch einmal Neues von P. D. James zu entdecken: vier Krimi-Kurzgeschichten, die im Laufe der Jahre für Weihnachts-Ausgaben verschiedener Zeitschriften und Magazine entstanden sind, drei davon hier erstmals auf Deutsch. Mit einem Geleitwort von Val McDermid. • »Der Mistelzweig-Mord«, die titelgebende Story, handelt von einer Weihnachtsfeier im Landhaus, die unter keinem guten Stern steht • In »A Very Commonplace Murder« geht es um eine illegale Affäre, die mit Mord endet • Und »The Boxdale Inheritance« und »The Twelve Clues of Christmas« sind neue Fälle für P. D. Jamesʼ Kult-Ermittler Commander Adam Dalgliesh, der längst in die Krimi-Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist Diese vier Weihnachts-Krimis zeigen das ganze Können der englischen Bestseller-Autorin P. D. James, von ihrem eleganten Stil über ihre Akribie bis zum unbestechlichen Blick hinter alle Fassaden.
Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best are collected here. “Mystery lovers are in for a very merry time. . . . Will entertain and delight.” —USA Today Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author's sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex--not to say the most damning--aspects of human nature. In "The Twelve Clues of Christmas," James's iconic Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is, in his own words, "pure Agatha Christie." In "A Very Commonplace Murder," a respectable clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime. "The Boxdale Inheritance" finds Dalgliesh's godfather imploring him to reinvestigate a notorious murder that might ease the godfather's mind about an inheritance--but which will reveal a truth that even the supremely upstanding Dalgliesh will keep to himself. And, in the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. A treat for P. D. James's legions of fans and anyone who enjoys the pleasures of a masterfuly wrought whodunit.
As the acknowledged Queen of Crime, P.D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best have been collected together for the first time in one volume. P.D. James's understanding of human nature illuminates each of these stories, making them ideal reading for the darkest days of the year. Each treats the reader to her masterfully atmospheric storytelling, a mystery to be solved, and enjoyable puzzles to keep the reader guessing. With wry humour, she pays tribute to her English crime-writing forebears, delighting in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at enforced family gatherings and in old country houses, from the title story about a strained family reunion on Christmas Eve, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, and two cases that introduce James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh as a young detective sergeant
Every book tells a story And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935, and that continues to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin. highly praised crime novels for more than forty years, and Penguin is proud to publish them in paperback. Her most famous and enduring creation is the poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, and in Innocent House taken from Original Sin he is confronted with a suspicious death and a puzzle at a respected publishing house.
