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Then you're in for a treat. Volume three of our popular anthology series is sure to scratch that questionable itch. With stories by Michael Knost, William Joseph Roberts, Philip K. Booker, Christopher Woods, D. Raymond Smith, David Badurina, H.P. Holo, James Palmer, Jason Cordova, Lee Ellis, M Leigh, Michael Morton, Michael Craig, and Guest Editorial by Faith Hunter.

"Arvesynd" er niende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Scenen er et gammelt palæ i venetiansk stil ved Themsen, hovedsæde for det fornemme, traditionsbevidste forlag, Peverell Press. Et generationsskifte i ledelsen har imidlertid netop fundet sted, og den unge Gerard Etienne har mange fjender, endnu før han sætter sig i stolen. Da han findes myrdet, trænges de mistænkte på det nærmeste i korridorerne, og Adam Dalgliesh og hans assistenter føres ad mange spor og vildspor ind i en højst særpræget verden.

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...

La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en el apacible rincón campestre de Martingale, es el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp críe tranquilamente a su hijo.

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hatte sich auf ruhige Ferien im Cottage seiner Tante an der einsamen Küste von Suffolk gefreut. Lange, windumtoste Spaziergänge, Tee vor knisterndem Kaminfeuer, heißer Buttertoast - das war seine Vorstellung von einer wohlverdienten Pause. Doch alle Hoffnung auf Ruhe wird schnell durch einen Mord erschüttert. Die verstümmelte Leiche eines ortsansässigen Krimi-Autors wird in einem kleinen Boot an der Küste angetrieben - und schon ist Adam Dalgliesh in eine weitere, besonders makabre Ermittlung verwickelt.

Ein durchdringender Schrei stört die abendliche Ruhe. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh verlässt überstürzt sein Literaten-Treffen, um in die nahegelegene psychiatrische Klinik zu eilen - wo er eine Frauenleiche mit einem Meißel im Herzen entdecken muss. Hinter der unauffälligen Fassade stellt sich die vornehme Nervenklinik bald als Intrigennest heraus. Und der erfolgsverwöhnte Dalgliesh beginnt an sich zu zweifeln, als sich der Mörder als intellektuell ebenbürtig - und mehr als bereit zu weiteren Taten - erweist.

"Le cadavre aux mains coupées reposait au fond d'un canot à voile qui dérivait tout près de la côte du Suffolk. C'était le corps d'un homme entre deux âges, un petit cadavre pimpant. " Cet homme, c'est - ou plutôt c'était - Maurice Seton, célèbre auteur de romans policiers. Pourquoi l'a-t-on assassiné? Qui est l'auteur de cette macabre mise en scène ? Adam Dalgliesh mène l'enquête, avec l'autorité et la subtilité que connaissent désormais les lecteurs de P.D. James.

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People 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...

The sixth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series, which led Newsweek to crown P. D. James "the new queen of crime." An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless...

Award-winning author P.D. James third mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer–but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely...

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage...

Award-winning author P.D. James' second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland...

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV “Complex and compelling.... James is writing in full mastery of...

No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private...

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...

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. Part of the bestselling mystery series that...

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed...

"List og længsler" er ottende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Adam Dalgliesh ferierer ved Nordsøkysten i Norfolk, men dumper lige ned i problemerne omkring et nærliggende atomkraftværk og en bestialsk kvindemorder, som huserer på stedet. "List og længsler" udkom første gang i 1989.

En form for retfærdighed er tiende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard.

Advokaten Venetia Aldridge påtager sig at forsvare den unge Gary Ashe, som står anklaget for at have myrdet sin tante med koldt blod. Hun opfatter opgaven som rent rutinearbejde, en triviel lejlighed blandt mange til at brillere i retten og til at fremme sin i forvejen lysende karriere. Men sagen mod Gary Ashe udløser en kæde af frygtelige begivenheder, ingen havde kunnet forudse.

"Mord på laboratoriet" er sjette bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. En ung pige findes stranguleret i nærheden af det retsmedicinske laboratorium. Kort efter finder endnu et mord sted, men denne gang inden for laboratoriets mure. Kriminalkommissær Adam Dalgliesh tilkaldes, og snart kommer han på sporet af spændte modsætninger og barske forhold mellem laboratoriets mennesker. "Mord på laboratoriet" udkom første gang i 1977.