Devices and Desires

Cover Her Face

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. Set against the English countryside, Cover Her Face is a classic murder mystery filled with James's trademark plot twists, intrigue, and suspense.

Though the Martingale manor house has hosted the annual St... Read more »

A Mind to Murder

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart.

As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he... Read more »

Unnatural Causes

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

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 other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a... Read more »

Shroud for a Nightingale

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure... Read more »

The Black Tower

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation packed with lies, suspicion and deceit.

... Read more »

Death of an Expert Witness

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense.

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the... Read more »

Devices and Desires

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the... Read more »

Original Sin

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues... Read more »

A Certain Justice

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the tenth novel to feature commander Adam Dalgliesh. A Certain Justice is a chilling murder mystery packed with forensic detail, set in the treacherous legal world of London.

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the... Read more »

Death in Holy Orders

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a... Read more »

The Murder Room

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both... Read more »

The Lighthouse

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

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.

Adam Dalgliesh... Read more »

The Private Patient

By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the... Read more »