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"Eran dos, y supo instant#neamente y con absoluta certeza que estaban muertos, los hab#an degollado y parec#an animales sacrificados en medio de un charco de sangre." S#ptima entrega de la serie "Adam Dalgliesh". Adam Dalgliesh tendr# que desvelar en esta ocasi#n el misterio que rodea el asesinato de dos hombres a los que la muerte ha unido, pero que en vida raramente habr#an coincidido: un baronet y un vagabundo alcoh#lico. El detective est# convencido de que el v#nculo entre ambos individuos de tan distintos #mbitos sociales le mostrar# el camino para llegar al autor del delito. Antes de alcanzar su objetivo, no obstante, deber# enfrentarse a un crimen que conmueve la opini#n p#blica e introducirse en las mansiones de la enigm#tica clase alta londinense.

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.

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

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

Un vagabund i un baró de l'alta aristocràcia britànica moren a l'església de Saint Matthew. Les primeres investigacions demostren que aquest és un cas massa complex i delicat per deixar-lo en mans

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.

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?

Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa embarks on a thrilling investigation, enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts.From the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders, Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity, blood ties, guilt and revenge.P. D. James has been influential as a crime writer for many years and her writing is often compared to the work of authors such as Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.

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.

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.

Recuperamos una novela de la genial autora ausente de nuestro cat#logo: un caso de Adam Dalgliesh, el emblem#tico detective creado por P.D. James. Primera entrega de la serie "Adam Dalgliesh". La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en el apacible rinc#n campestre de Martingale, es el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp cr#e tranquilamente a su hijo. La se#ora Maxie necesitaba ayuda para atender a su marido inv#lido, pero, aparte de eso, trabajar en aquella casa ten#a que ser tranquilo y agradable. Sin embargo, un horrible crimen acaba pronto con la paz hogare#a y las ilusiones de Sally...