Adam Dalgliesh Series by P.D. James, Martin Shaw, Christa Seibicke

3.88 · 366 ratings
  • Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)
    #1

    Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 1962

    Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

  • The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories (Adam Dalgliesh #1)
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    The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2016

    P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time. From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, plus two cases for detective Adam Dalgliesh, these are masterfully atmospheric stories by the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime'.

  • A Mind To Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2)
    #2

    A Mind To Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1963

    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... more

  • Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3)
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    Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1967

    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERYSuperintendent 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 to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break.However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder... more

  • Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh #4)
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    Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh #4)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1971

    Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series.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... more

  • The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
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    The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1975

    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 patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be... more

  • Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh #6)
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    Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh #6)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1977

    Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learns that there is more to human beings than meets the eye -- and more to solving a murder than the obvious clues.

  • A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
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    A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1986

    When the quiet Little Vestry of St... more

  • Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8)
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    Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1989

    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 sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory... more

  • Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh #9)
    #9

    Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh #9)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1994

    The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames.The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose ruthless ambition has made him many enemies: a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author and rebellious colleagues. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a killer who is prepared to strike again.

  • A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh #10)
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    A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh #10)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1997

    It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head... more

  • Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh #11)
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    Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh #11)

    P.D. James, Martin Shaw, Christa Seibicke

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2001

    From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery... more

  • The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12)
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    The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2003

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Murders present meet murders past in this harrowing, thought-provoking thriller • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne—a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time—when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees... more

  • The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)
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    The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2005

    Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers respite to over-stressed high authorities who require privacy and security. But demanding author Nathan Oliver is found strangled and hanging from the renovated lighthouse. Investigator Adam Dagliesh, his inspector Kate Miskin, and sergeant Francis Benton are all pre-occupied with their personal and love lives... more

  • The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh #14)
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    The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh #14)

    P.D. James

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2008

    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.

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