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ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 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 youn...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing ...

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Miss Bolam - korrekt, lojal, pedantisk, men inte särskilt populär föreståndare på en privat psykiatrisk klinik i London - blir brutalt mördad. Så enkelt det hade varit om man kunnat lasta en psykotisk patient för den tragiska händelsen. Men Adam D...

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P. D. James debuterade först i 40-årsåldern, men har med sitt författarskap präglat den brittiska kriminallitteraturen så till den grad att hon 1991 adlades till baronessa. Med en sällsam förmåga att levandegöra sina gestalter utan att för den sku...

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Four festive stories from P. D. James, the 'Queen of Crime' From a Christmas murder at a country house to an illicit affair and a questionable inheritance, P. D. James's trademark sparkling prose illuminates the secrets that lurk beneath the surfa...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times 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 b...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful retreat for the rich and the powerful. But the peace of the island is violated when one of its distinguished visitors is murdered. Ad...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times 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 t...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distin...

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Klassisk älskad englandsdeckare Rhoda Gradwyn, en av Londons mer beryktade undersökande journalister, skriver in sig på den berömde plastikkirurgen Chandler-Powells exklusiva privatklinik för att låta avlägsna ett missprydande ärr i ansiktet. Alla...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times When secrets get out, no one is safe . . . On a crisp January morning, a group of third year nursing students gathers early for a clinical lesson. They have no idea that they are ab...

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'A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have fo...

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Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born i...

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Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club. The Detect...

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Frid råder över herrgården Martingale. Den årliga kyrkobasaren har blivit en succé och Mrs Maxie pustar ut efter dagens alla bestyr. Då får hon veta att hennes son, doktor Simon Maxie, förlovat sig med hennes kammarjungfru Sally Jupp; ett arrangem...

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"En risk med att vara bästsäljande deckarförfattare är att man ofta får frågan: 'Har du någonsin varit personligt inblandad i ett mordfall?'" Svaret får vi i en av de fyra, tidigare aldrig översatta berättelserna i Mistlar och mord. De u...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times An unfinished manuscript. A murder stranger than fiction. Battered by the conclusion of a particularly brutal murder case in London, Superintendent Adam Dalgleish decides to escape ...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, ...

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspe...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Adam Dalgliesh. I've heard of him - ruthless, unorthodox, and working always against time. When the body of Sally Jupp is discovered in her bedroom - the door bolted from the inside...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Lies. Adultery. Blackmail. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has never failed to solve a case. When he is called to the scene of a gruesome murder at a psychiatry clinic in London, he f...

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"En risk med att vara bästsäljande deckarförfattare är att man ofta får frågan: 'Har du någonsin varit personligt inblandad i ett mordfall?'" Svaret får vi i en av de fyra, tidigare aldrig översatta berättelserna i Mistlar och mord. De utspelas al...

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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 ...

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Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged ...

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A Cordelia Gray Mystery Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The ...

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Though Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers, she seemed the ideal girl to help Mrs Maxie run a large Elizabethan manor house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally, pretty, ambitious and clever, was very diff...

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times 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 ...

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The acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other ...

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