Adam Dalgliesh mysteries
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Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a drug dealer found dead in the basement of a book club. His key witness is a single mother named Sally Jupp who had brought her eight-week-old son with her to the club to visit her former co-workers. The investigation leads Dalgliesh to the country home of the Maxie family, where the young woman is now employed.
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When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder.
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Adam Dalgleish, convalescing after a severe illness, arrives at Toynton Grange, the rest home for the young disabled, just too late to find out why his old friend Father Baddeley had sent for him. Stirred by suspicions, the sleuth takes up residence at the home.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 6
Inspector Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray volume 07
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 06
P.D. James volume 7
Inspector Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray volume 07
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 06
P.D. James volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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"An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart."--
9) Original sin
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 9
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In London, the managing director of a stately publishing house is found dead, a stuffed snake in his mouth. The suspects are many: a rejected author, a discarded mistress, a resentful employee, to mention just a few. Commander Adam Dalgliesh sifts through their lives and the company's finances in order to find the killer.
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 11
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The untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery.
12) The murder room
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a trustee of a small private London museum locked in a battle over its future, and find their probe complicated by a second corpse.
13) The lighthouse
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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 Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive...