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A Taste for Death is a 1986 detective novel by P. D. James featuring Scotland Yard commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. The investigation begins when two men, one of them a government minister, are found with their throats cut in the vestry of a London church. The novel combines police procedure with...
Death of an Expert Witness is a 1977 detective novel by P. D. James featuring Commander Adam Dalgliesh. The investigation is centered on a forensic science laboratory in the English Fens, where a senior scientist is found murdered in a setting designed to analyze evidence from other crimes. Dalglies...
The Black Tower is a 1975 detective novel by P. D. James and part of the series featuring Scotland Yard commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. While recovering from a serious illness, Dalgliesh visits a residential institution for disabled people on the Dorset coast and becomes troubled by deaths surrou...
A Mind to Murder is a 1963 detective novel by P. D. James and the second book featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. Its central crime is the killing of the administrative officer at the Steen Psychiatric Clinic in London, where professional rivalries and private tensions complicate the i...
Cover Her Face is a 1962 detective novel by P. D. James and the first book to feature Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. The investigation concerns the death of Sally Jupp, an unmarried mother working as a maid for the Maxie family at their country house in Essex. Combining a closed circle of s...
