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Shroud for a Nightingale by P.d. James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who h ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
As a companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, a further six of P. D. James's ingenious short stories are published here together for the first time.As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their come ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
$17.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A Washington Post Notable Book When it comes to crime, it's not always a question of "who dunnit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or the how. And what about the clever few who carry out what appears to be the perfect crime? Or whose most essential selves are changed by the crimes they com ...Show more
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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 ...Show more
Taste for Death by P. D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Winner of the CWA Crime Awards Silver Dagger Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up ...Show more
The Black Tower by P.d. James
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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 on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the p ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021. Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of E ...Show more
The Children of Men by P. D. James
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, unti ...Show more
The Children of Men (Revolutionary Writing) by P.D. James
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P.D. James
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of the island's lighthouse, murder - not suicide - is suspected. Commander Adam Dalgliesh ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
$29.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. 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 authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of ...Show more