P.D. James

«Eran dos, y supo instantáneamente y con absoluta certeza que estaban muertos, los habían degollado y parecían animales sacrificados en medio de un charco de sangre.»Séptima entrega de la serie «Adam

P.D. James explora el desarrollo de un género novelístico que ha estimulado y enriquecido el imaginario popular como no lo ha hecho ningún otro.Después de casi cincuenta años a la vanguardia de la novela de misterio, con una veintena de best sellers en su haber, dieciseis de los cuales novelas de detectives, y dos obras de no ficcion, P.D. James habla con franqueza y autoridad acerca del arte de escribir relatos detectivescos.Su admiracion por muchos de sus predecesores y contemporaneos en el genero se deja ver en esta cronica personal que atrapa desde las primeras paginas.Del inquilino del 221 de Baker Street al sacerdote del pueblo de Cubhole, en Essex, desde la epoca dorada de las novelas de detectives entre las dos guerras mundiales hasta el presente, e incluso un poco hacia el futuro, P.D James explora el desarrollo de un genero que ha apasionado y estimulado la imaginacion popular.Opinion: La mejor escritora contemporanea de novela negra.Sunday Times

Una inolvidable novela de misterio que empieza donde terminaba Orgullo y prejuicio. Un logro de la imaginación que respeta la sutileza del mundo de su gran maestra.P.D. James es una autora que cuenta con miles de fieles lectores. Un magistral homenaje a Orgullo y prejuicio y Jane Austen, su autora preferida.Pemberley, año 1803. Han pasado seis años desde que Elizabeth y Darcy se casaron para crear un mundo perfecto que parece invulnerable. Pero de pronto, en la vispera de un baile, todo se tuerce.Un carruaje sale a toda prisa de la residencia, llevandose a Lydia, la hermana de Elizabeth, con su marido, el desafortunado Wickham, que ha sido expulsado de los dominios de Darcy. Sin embargo, Lydia no tarda en regresar, conmocionada, gritando que su marido ha sido asesinado...Pemberley se zambulle en un escalofriante misterio.Opinion: Una novela perfecta.USA Today

Cuarta entrega de la serie thriller protagonizada por el inspector Adam Dalgliesh.Un thriller protagonizado por Adam Dalgliesh, detective emblemático de las principales novelas de P.D. James, en el que la gran dama de la novela negra demuestra una vez mas su talento para analizar la naturaleza humana.En casi todos los aspectos, el hospital John Carpendar era una institucion modelica. Hasta el dia en que aparece una enfermera muerta en extrañas circunstancias, y poco despues otra. El inspector Dalgliesh descubre no solo tensiones entre las enfermeras, sino tambien aspectos oscuros del pasado de algunas de ellas. Antes de llegar a la resolucion del caso, tan estremecedor como inesperado, ocurren nuevas muertes...Adam Dalgliesh debe encontrar las respuestas a las preguntas que se plantean.

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Adam Dalgiesh, el poeta detective que ha protagonizado las novelas más conocidas de P.D. James, tendrá que relegar a un segundo plano sus problemas de salud, para enfrentarse a un nuevo caso. P.D. James, una de las mas destacadas representantes de la literatura inglesa contemporanea, ofrece en La torre negra una muestra cabal de su talento para la novela de misterio de calidad. El detective Adam Dalgliesh ha estado alejado del servicio debido a una enfermedad, y ahora debe visitar a un antiguo amigo de la familia, capellan en una casa de reposo, para intentar recuperar la energia perdida. Sin embargo, apenas alcanzado su destino, debera concentrar sus fuerzas en desvelar que se oculta tras una serie de muertes en apariencia accidentales.

Recuperamos una novela de la genial autora ausente de nuestro catálogo: un caso de Adam Dalgliesh, el emblemático detective creado por P.D. James. Primera entrega de la serie «Adam Dalgliesh». La eno

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. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

St. Cedd''s Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son''s sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, the sly single mother, Sally Jupp. On the following morning, Martingale and the whole village are shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp''s body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life. P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has a large extended family.

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew''s Church, Paddington, their 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 to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family''s veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.

P.D. JamesTo judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P.D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Village Priest from Cubhole in Essex, from the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars to the achievements of the present and a glimpse at the future, P.D. James explores the metamorphosis of a genre which has gripped and entertained the popular imagination like no other type of novel. Written by the author widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction.

Philippa Palfrey es una niña adoptada que crece convencida de ser la hija ilegítima de un aristócrata, pero al cumplir los dieciocho años las ansias de conocer a sus verdaderos padres la llevan a enfrentarse a una tragica realidad: Philippa es hija de un violador y una asesina. Incredula y al mismo tiempo horrorizada, Philippa quiere saber mas, hasta convertir su vida en un autentica pesadilla. En este viaje infernal en busca de una identidad, destacan nuevamente las dotes narrativas de P. D. James, una escritora que aprovecha los recursos del thriller para ofrecernos un magistral retrato de la condicion humana.P. D. James es una de las grandes damas de la novela negra.Este titulo es uno de los mas exitosos de su trayectoria.

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell''s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week''s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset''s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt.A new detective novel by P. D. James is always keenly awaited and "The Private Patient" will undoubtedly equal the success of her worldwide bestseller "The Lighthouse". It displays the qualities which P. D. James'' readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterisation, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery. "The Private Patient" is a powerful work of contemporary fiction.

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 in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family and soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister. PD James is the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room. Her first Cordelia Gray novel An Unsuitable Job For a Woman is a brilliant work of crime fiction packed with secrets and suspense. This novel has been adapted for television twice, the second adaptation in 1997 starred Helen Baxendale as Cordelia Gray.