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...

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D. James examines the challenges,...

A BBC Radio drama based on P.D. James' bestselling novel, starring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrewIn the seventeenth century, a witch is burned in a stone circle. Three hundred and fifty...

The year is 2021, and no human babies have been born anywhere in the inhabited world for a quarter of a century, not since Year Omega. The very old succumb to despair and suicide; the final...