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 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....

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...

Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew star in this thrilling dramatisation of P.D. James' enduringly popular mystery.When two men are discovered with their throats cut in the vestry of St...

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...

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...

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt’s cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do...

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...

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. The year is 1803, and Darcy and...

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 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.