P. D. James

National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of …

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the …

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick …

LIVRE DE POCHE Policier n° 6699 (1990) - Phyllis Dorothy JAMES Sans les mains

Le manager français Gérard Étienne n'aurait pas dû vouloir restructurer la Peverell Press, très honorable maison d'édition londonienne installée dans Innocent House, une imitation de palais vénitien planté sur les bords de la Tamise. En tous cas, il en est mort. C'est ce que pense au début de son enquête le célèbre …

Fourteen spine-tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James's "The Victim," in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex-husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors. Original.