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...

When notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into an exclusive clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a...

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...

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...

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...

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.