Death in Holy Orders
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Adam Dalgliesh: Book #11
By P. D. James
Narrated by Charles Keating / 15 hours 7 minutes
The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants—and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son’s death. Although there seems to be little to investigate, Dalgliesh agrees, largely out of nostal-gia for several happy summers he spent at St. Anselm’s as a boy. No sooner does he arrive, however, than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself ineluctably drawn into the labyrinth of an intricate and violent mystery.
Here P. D. James once more demonstrates her unrivalled skill in building a classic detective story into a fully realized novel, gripping as much for its psychological and emotional richness as for the originality and complexity of its plotting—and, of course, for the horror and suspense at its heart. Filled with unforgettable characters, brilliant in its evocation of the East Anglian scene and the religious background against which the action takes place, Death in Holy Orders again offers proof, if proof were needed, that P. D. James is not only the reigning master of the crime novel but also, simply, one of the finest novelists writing today.
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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.
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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A Certain Justice
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
Length: 18 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Death in Holy Orders
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Charles Keating
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and... Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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The Murder Room
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Charles Keating
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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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.
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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 »
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The Private Patient
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
Learn more| Author | P. D. James |
| Narrator | Charles Keating |
| ISBN | 9780739300060 |
| Length | 15 hours 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Publication date | April 10, 2001 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Genres | Fiction & Literature |
| Libro.fm rank | #35,590 Overall |
| Genre rank | #14,216 in Fiction & Literature |