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Un nuevo cl#sico de la gran dama del crimen, P.D. James. Cuando la prestigiosa periodista de investigaci#n Rhoda Gradwyn ingresa en Cheverell Manor, la cl#nica privada del doctor Chandler-Powell en Dorset, para quitarse una antiest#tica cicatriz que le atraviesa el rostro, sus planes son ser operada por un cirujano c#lebre, pasar una semana de convalecencia en una de las mansiones m#s bonitas de Dorset y comenzar una nueva vida. Nada le hace presagiar que no saldr# con vida de Cheverell Manor. El inspector Adam Dalgliesh y su equipo se encargar#n del caso. Pronto topar#n con un segundo asesinato, y tendr#n que afrontar problemas mucho m#s complejos que la cuesti#n de la inocencia o la culpabilidad. P.D. James se ha ganado una reputaci#n inigualable por escribir historias de detectives con una profundidad y una complejidad poco comunes, combinadas con la perspicacia y la agilidad que solo se encuentra en los mejores novelistas.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and security. However, the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under her. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing... Michael Jayston reads this complete, full-length novel about a murder in a secluded lighthouse, by bestselling author P. D. James The peace of Combe Island is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered murder, thriller, crimer, p d james, Michael Jayston, Combe Island, the lighthouse cd, the lighthouse audio, p d james audio, p d james cd, p d james lighthouse audio, p d james lighthouse cd, dalgliesh audio, dalgliesh cd, michael jayston audio, michael jayston cd, lighthouse unabridged

Rhoda Gradwyn, giornalista investigativa, ha , molto successo e pochissimi amici. È un personaggio scomodo per molti: le sue scottanti inchieste, sempre ben documentate, producono spesso effetti negativi, se non addirittura tragici, sulle esistenze delle persone che ne sono loro malgrado protagoniste. Quando decide finalmente di liberarsi di una cicatrice che le deturpa il viso da molti anni, la donna si affida a un celebre chirurgo plastico e alla sua esclusiva clinica privata, Cheverell Manor, ospitata in un'antica residenza nel Dorset. L'intervento, che dovrebbe segnare per lei l'inizio di una nuova vita, è invece il suo appuntamento con la morte. Rhoda viene infatti ritrovata cadavere la mattina dopo l'operazione, uccisa brutalmente da un misterioso assassino. Chi può essere stato? A Cheverell Manor, i possibili indiziati sono molti. Sarà Adam Dalgliesh, ormai ai vertici della carriera investigativa, con i suoi fidi assistenti Kate e Benton, chiamati da Londra a indagare sull'omicidio, a scavare nel passato della vittima e dei sospettati alla ricerca di una verità tanto agghiacciante quanto sorprendente. Ancora una volta P.D. James torna a orchestrare con la consueta maestria i destini dei suoi personaggi, intrecciandoli sapientemente e costruendo una storia che, come sempre, ha il suo fulcro in Adam Dalgliesh, investigatore abilissimo e sensibile, capace come pochi altri eroi della letteratura gialla di scandagliare i misteri dell'animo umano

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.

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence.

La hora de la verdad presenta a una P.D. James preocupada por el acontecer cultural, pol#tico y sociol#gico de su tiempo. Una original autobiograf#a -escrita en forma de diario- que se inicia el 3 de agosto de 1997, el d#a en que P.D. James cumple setenta y siete a#os, y finaliza un a#o m#s tarde, el 3 de agosto de 1998. Al hilo de la vida de cada d#a y de lo que acontece, P.D. James evoca el pasado mediante flashbacks perfectamente hilvanados, rescatando de la memora los hechos cruciales de su infancia durante la posguerra, el peculiar ambiente familiar en que transcurri# la misma, debido al internamiento de la madre en un hospital psiqui#trico, sus primeras lecturas, su boda y las posteriores dificultades familiares debidas al largo trastorno mental de su marido, su trabajo en el Ministerio del Interior, los duros a#os durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las causas que la llevaron a escribir novelas polic#acas, su obsesi#n por la muerte, sus teor#as sobre la novela polic#aca y la evoluci#n de la misma desde el siglo XIX... En fin, en este libro el lector encontrar# a una P.D. James de carne y hueso, una mujer inteligente, humana, preocupada por su #poca, por los fen#menos culturales, sociales y pol#tic

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.

Una inolvidable novela de misterio que empieza donde terminabaOrgullo 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 aOrgullo 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.USAToday

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to visit the young man's theological college, St Anselm's - a place he knew as a boy - expecting a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacreligious and horrifying murder.

As the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best of these have been drawn from the archives and published here. P. D. James' prose illuminates each of these perfectly formed stories, making them ideal reading for the darkest days of the year. While she delights in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at family gatherings, her Christmas stories also provide tantalizing puzzles to keep the reader guessing. P. D. James embraces the challenge of the short-story form, and ingeniously weaves the strands of plot, setting, characterisation and surprise to create a satisfying whole within only a few thousand words. From the title story about a strained country-house party on Christmas Eve, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, and two cases for James' poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, each treats the reader to James' masterfully atmospheric storytelling, always with the lure of a mystery to be solved.