Though Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers, she seemed the ideal girl to help Mrs Maxie run a large house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally, pretty,...

When a young girl is found strangled in a field in the Fens, it looks like a routine job for the staff of the East Anglian Forensic Laboratory. But then the senior biologist is found dead in his...

When Commander Dalgliesh visits the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it under very different circumstances. One of the...

Judi Bowker and Anna Massey star in this gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation featuring young detective Cordelia Gray. Mark Calendar, 21 years old and in his final year at Cambridge,...

When two men are discovered, with their throats cut, in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, the police are faced with an intriguing challenge for one of the victims was ex-Government minister Sir...

Now 18, Philippa, the adopted daughter of Maurice Palfrey, a well-known academic, has claimed her birth certificate from the Register Office and, with it, has made a terrible discovery. Some...

Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset...

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems, and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast. But he cannot so...

The bizarre murder of the managing director of The Peverill Press presents Adam Dalgliesh with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity - and a murderer who is prepared to kill again.

Though Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers, she seemed the ideal girl to help Mrs Maxie run a large house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally, pretty,...

Diana Bishop reads P.D. James’ fascinating observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, the detective novel.To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan...

Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious.

Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays the patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly,...

That a man who caught murderers should be a successful poet seemed inappropriate to some people. But Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of the Criminal Investigation Department was attending his...