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Hlavní hrdinku, krásnou a bezcitnou herečku Clarissu Lisleovou, dovádí k šílenství série anonymů. Chce ji neznámý odesílatel jen vyděsit, chce zničit její kariéru, nebo jí skutečně usiluje o život?

The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, as the guests are preparing to retire for the night a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen, P. D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. Death Comes to Pemberley is a distinguished work of fiction, from one of the best-loved, most- read writers of our time.

Napínavý kriminální příběh inspektora Adama Dalglieshe. Děj se odehrává v sídle Martingale, kde žije rodina Maxieových. Paní Maxieová přijala jako pomocnou sílu do kuchyně svobodnou matku Sally Juppovou, kterou téměř nikdo v domě nemá rád. Jen mladý doktor Maxie ji zahrnuje pozorností, a dokonce jí navrhne sňatek. Druhý den ráno najdou Sally v jejím pokoji mrtvou…

Čtyři dosud nevydané povídky z pera jedné z nejslavnějších autorek detektivních příběhů. Jedna z nich popisuje případ, jehož součástí byla před padesáti lety sama P. D. Jamesová, v dalších dvou se seznámíme s mladým Adamem Dalglieshem. Všechny povídky jsou hravé, důmyslně sestavené a vyprávěné s elegancí a typickým náznakem humoru i hlubokým pochopení pro nejsložitější stránky lidské povahy. Vánoční vražda * Úplně obyčejná vražda * Dědictví Boxdaleových * Dvanáct vánočních stop

Čtyři dosud nevydané povídky z pera jedné z nejslavnějších autorek detektivních příběhů, tentokrát k poslechu. Jedna z nich popisuje případ, jehož součástí byla před padesáti lety sama P. D. Jamesová, v dalších dvou se seznámíme s mladým Adamem Dalglieshem. Všechny povídky jsou hravé, důmyslně sestavené a vyprávěné s elegancí a typickým náznakem humoru i hlubokým pochopení pro nejsložitější stránky lidské povahy. Vánoční vražda * Úplně obyčejná vražda * Dědictví Boxdaleových * Dvanáct vánočních stop

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

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.

The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again.

Slavná anglická detektivkářka P. D. Jamesová tentokrát úplně jinak. Záhadnou smrt příbuzného budou řešit hlavní postavy z románu Jane Austenové Pýcha a předsudek.Přípravy na ples lady Anne vrcholí, hosté se sjíždějí a pan Darcy a jeho choť mají plné ruce práce s doladěním posledních detailů. Jejich plány ovšem naruší příjezd Elizabethiny sestry Lydie Wickhamové. Ta svým oznámením, že byl v lese zavražděn její manžel, spustí lavinu dalších událostí a komplikovaných vyšetřování.

At 18, Philippa Palfrey, the confident adopted daughter of a celebrated academic, exercises her right to learn the names of her real parents. What she discovers is a terrible secret that will change her life forever.

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. Adam 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 chilling and atmospheric work of detective fiction, The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh, from the award-winning author of Children of Men, Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room.

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.

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?

2021-et írunk. Huszonöt éve egyetlen gyermek sem született. Az emberi faj a kihalástól tart. Anglia Gondnokának, Xan Lyppiattnek a zsarnoki uralma alatt az idősek kétségbeesetté, a fiatalok pedig kegyetlenné válnak. Theo Faren, a Gondnok unokatestvére ebben a fenyegető légkörben éli magányos életét mindaddig, amíg egy fiatal nővel való véletlen találkozása folytán kapcsolatba nem kerül a másként gondolkodók egy csoportjával. Az élete hirtelen visszafordíthatatlanul megváltozik, amikor olyan gyötrelmes választásokkal találja magát szemben, amelyek kihatással lehetnek az emberiség jövőjére.

P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time. From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, plus two cases for detective Adam Dalgliesh, these are masterfully atmospheric stories by the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime'.

Adam Dalgliesh jede navštívit svého dávného přítele kněze Baddeleyho do domova s pečovatelskou službou v Dorsetu. Série podivných úmrtí na Toynton Grange, kde žijí pacienti i personál ústavu, vzbudí jeho podezření. Někomu se daří vraždit tak rafinovaně, že smrt lze vždy vysvětlit jako nikým nezaviněnou nešťastnou náhodu. Ale i dokonalý vrah nakonec udělá chybu, zvlášť když se domnívá, že někdo tuší jeho pravý motiv. A proto se má poslední obětí jeho cynického plánu stát sám Dalgliesh. Ten se tak nakonec setkává s vrahem tváří v tvář...