Ergebnis für "P D James" in Krimis

Auf Martingale Manor, dem Herrenhaus der Maxies, wird das traditionelle Sommerfest gefeiert. Als wäre dies nicht genug Aufregung, muss sich Mrs. Maxie an diesem milden Julitag auch noch mit der Nachricht herumschlagen, dass sich ihr Sohn mit dem neuen Hausmädchen verlobt hat, der ledigen Mutter Sally Jupp. Hinter ihrer Maske aus Tüchtigkeit und Ergebenheit versteckt Sally Gefühle der Verachtung - was den meisten auf Martingale verborgen bleibt. Am nächsten Morgen jedoch wird Sally ermordet aufgefunden.

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

Ein durchdringender Schrei stört die abendliche Ruhe. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh verlässt überstürzt sein Literaten-Treffen, um in die nahegelegene psychiatrische Klinik zu eilen - wo er eine Frauenleiche mit einem Meißel im Herzen entdecken muss. Hinter der unauffälligen Fassade stellt sich die vornehme Nervenklinik bald als Intrigennest heraus. Und der erfolgsverwöhnte Dalgliesh beginnt an sich zu zweifeln, als sich der Mörder als intellektuell ebenbürtig - und mehr als bereit zu weiteren Taten - erweist.

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hatte sich auf ruhige Ferien im Cottage seiner Tante an der einsamen Küste von Suffolk gefreut. Lange, windumtoste Spaziergänge, Tee vor knisterndem Kaminfeuer, heißer Buttertoast - das war seine Vorstellung von einer wohlverdienten Pause. Doch alle Hoffnung auf Ruhe wird schnell durch einen Mord erschüttert. Die verstümmelte Leiche eines ortsansässigen Krimi-Autors wird in einem kleinen Boot an der Küste angetrieben - und schon ist Adam Dalgliesh in eine weitere, besonders makabre Ermittlung verwickelt.

It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed - and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders....

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating. Two days later she was dead, the victim of murder.

The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 - 1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether it should be closed, one of them is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered. Someone in the Dupayne is prepared to kill and kill again. Still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of the past featured in one of the museum’s galleries: the Murder Room.

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. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.

Al posto di Cordelia Gray, un'altra donna si sarebbe probabilmente ritirata dall'attività dopo quella terribile mattina in cui, entrando nella sede della sua agenzia investigativa, ha trovato il socio Bernie Pryde con le vene tagliate, ormai cadavere. Ma Cordelia é una ragazza testarda, e continua nelle sue indagini. Così quando il celebre biologo Sir Ronald Callender le chiede di indagare sull'oscuro suicidio del figlio Mark, Cordelia non si tira indietro. Che cosa può avere indotto il serio e tranquillo Mark Callender a impiccarsi a un gancio del soffitto nel suo cottage?

Una barca si arena sulle coste del Suffolk. A bordo c'è il cadavere del famoso giallista Maurice Seton. Le mani gli sono state mozzate: un macabro dettaglio che lo stesso Seton aveva inserito nel progetto del suo nuovo libro. Suo malgrado l'ispettore Adam Dalgliesh, in vacanza nella regione, viene coinvolto nel caso dagli amici e dai vicini di casa del morto. Un gruppetto di persone rispettabili. In apparenza. Ma con troppi segreti e troppi rancori nascosti. Una nuova, inquietante sfida all'acume investigativo di Dalgliesh.

Adam Dalgliesh, un des plus fins limiers de Scotland Yard, a reçu une lettre d'un vieil ami qui l'invite à lui rendre visite. Lorsqu'il arrive à Toynton Manor – l'institution pour handicapés dont son ami est l'aumônier -, Dalgliesh apprend une triste nouvelle : le père Baddeley est mort et enterré.

Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he's been living rough and happily so. That is until now. For, as the first signs of winter approach, everything changes. While looking for shelter, Miff stumbles across the dead body of a young woman inside a dilapidated warehouse. Quickly realising he's not alone, and what's worse he's been spotted, Miff becomes embroiled in a game of cat and mouse with a killer that forces him to abandon his life on the streets and take refuge with his aunt and uncle in the village of Weston St Ambrose.

"Fyret" er trettende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Under Anden Verdenskrig kommer tre tyske soldater til Combe Island ud for Englands kyst. Alle tre myrdes brutalt. Tres år senere er øen et lille og diskret, rekreativt paradis for den britiske elite. Tjenestefolkene betjener herskaberne, og stilheden brydes kun af Atlanterhavets brusen og dønningerne efter den arrogante kvartalsgæst, forfatteren Nathan Oliver. Men en dag ankommer inspektør Adam Dalgliesh med sine kolleger.

Rhoda Gradwyn, en frygtet, opsøgende journalist, bestiller tid på dr. Chandler-Powells privatklinik i Dorset for at få fjernet et skæmmende ar i ansigtet. Hun ser frem til en vellykket operation under en velrenommeret kirurgs kniv og en uges fredfyldt rekreation på et af Dorset mest pragtfulde godser. Hun ser også frem til et nyt liv. At hun ikke kommer til at forlade Cheverell Manor i live, er næppe en tanke, der strejfer hende.

"Mord på laboratoriet" er sjette bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. En ung pige findes stranguleret i nærheden af det retsmedicinske laboratorium. Kort efter finder endnu et mord sted, men denne gang inden for laboratoriets mure. Kriminalkommissær Adam Dalgliesh tilkaldes, og snart kommer han på sporet af spændte modsætninger og barske forhold mellem laboratoriets mennesker. "Mord på laboratoriet" udkom første gang i 1977.

Vi er i 1803. Alt er idyl. Elizabeth og Darcy har været lykkeligt gift i seks år og har fået to sønner. Elizabeths søster Jane og hendes mand, Bingley, bor i nærheden, og de to familier står hinanden nær. Men freden trues, og gamle synder og misforståelser blusser op netop på aftenen for det populære efterårsbal. En vogn ruller i rasende fart op foran Pemberleys hovedtrappe, og Elizabeths letsindige søster Lydia tumler ud, hysterisk råbende, at hendes mand er blevet myrdet i skoven ved Pemberley.

Pemberley, le domaine ancestral de la famille Darcy, dans le Derbyshire, abrite le bonheur conjugal d'Elizabeth Darcy. Elle est la mère de deux charmants bambins ; sa sœur préférée, Jane, et son mari, Bingley, habitent tout près ; et son père adulé, Mr Bennet, vient régulièrement en visite. Mais cette félicité se trouve soudain menacée lorsque, à la veille du bal d'automne, un drame contraint les Darcy à accueillir la jeune sœur d'Elizabeth et son mari, que leurs frasques passées ont rendu indésirables.

Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción.