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L'ispettore Dalgliesh ha ricevuto in eredita un solitario mulino a vento sul promontorio di Larskoken. Un'ottima soluzione per le vacanze dell'ispettore, che sogna solo di lasciare la caotica Londra in cerca di riposo e silenzio. Sogni vani, perche in quell'angolo remoto d'Inghilterra un inafferrabile pazzo omicida ha seminato il terrore con una serie di delitti all'ombra inquietante di una centrale nucleare in cui si e verificato un misterioso suicidio. Ce n'e quanto basta per rovinare la quiete dell'ispettore, soprattutto quando accanto al suo mulino viene commesso un altro delitto. Inevitabile e il coinvolgimento di Dalgliesh che si trova cosi trascinato in una nuova, difficile indagine e in una sfida elettrizzante con il delitto.

When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications. Even before the murder, the museum was in tumult. A new lease is due to be signed and two of the trustees are determined to keep the museum open, the third passionately determined on its closure.The museum is dedicated to the years 1919-1939 and one of the galleries, the Murder Room, displays exhibits from the most notorious cases of those inter-war years. And now a modern killer is at work, the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display. All the small group of people, the trustees, staff and volunteers, who work in the Dupayne, have the means and the opportunity for murder. One of them has the ruthlessness to kill and kill again.The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham, but their relationship, at a sensitive stage for them both, is continually frustrated by the demands of his job. As step by step he moves closer to the murderer, is the investigation taking him further away from commitment to the woman he loves?

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. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn''t the only murderer at work under the sinister shadow of the power station.In Devices and Desires, award-winning P. D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, The Murder Room and Children of Men) plots a chilling investigation into the motives of a cold-hearted serial killer. This novel was adapted for BBC television in 1984 and starred Roy Marsden as the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh.

Un nuevo clásico de la gran dama del crimen. Cuando la pretigiosa periodista de investigación Rhoda Gradwyn ingresa en Cheverell-Powell, en Dorset, para quitars una antiestética y antigua cicatriz que le atraviesa el rostro, confia en ser operada por un cirujano celebre y pasar una tranquila semana de convalecencia en una de las mansiones mas bonitas de Dorset. Nada le hace presagiar que no saldra con vida de Cheverell Manor. El inspector Adam Dalgliesh y su equipo se encargaran del caso. Pronto toparan con un segundo asesinato, y tendran que afrontar problemas mucho mas complejos que la cuestion de la inocencia o la culpabilidad. Muerte en la clinica privada es la decimocuarta novela protagonizada por el inspector Adam Dalgliesh, en una trama excelente y verosimil, con personajes muy reales dotados de gran personalidad psicologica.

Cordelia es responsable de una agencia de investigación de poca monta, pero sir George Ralston la elige para que custodie a Clarissa, su esposa, una actriz alejada de los escenerios a causa de unos anónimos alarmantes. Pese a los temores de la artista, Ambrose Gorringe, propietario de Courcy Island, consigue convencerla de que actúae en su castillo. Es entonces cuando asesinan a Clarissa pese a la vigilancia de Cordelia, y ésta se siente obligada a descubrir al homicida. La certidumbre de que hallar la verdad será tan peligroso como útil no frenará a la detective.

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 career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

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.