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The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
$25.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn i ...Show more
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 illici ...Show more
The Murder Room by P. D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close ...Show more
The Part-Time Job by P. D. James
$10.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, the undisputed "Queen of Crime," with a dark, twisted take on how the best revenge is served ice cold. Willing to wait decades to dispatch the bully who tormented his youth, our narrator has a plan--and the unwavering patience and brutal f ...Show more
The Private Patient by P. D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and hi ...Show more
The Private Patient by P.D. James
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
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 Dor ...Show more
The Private Patient by P.D. James
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime
The scar on Rhoda Gradwyn's face was to be the death of her ...When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning ...Show more
The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Cordelia Gray
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the second novel to feature the famous female detective Cordelia Gray of the Pryde Detective Agency. Set on the sinister Courcy Island, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacul ...Show more
Victim (Faber Stories) by P. D. JAMES
$8.00 AUD
Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel ...Show more