Adam Dalgliesh mysteries
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 1
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Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 2
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Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is murdered, and in the course of his investigation learns of the anxieties and desires of the clinic's patients and staff.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 4
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The mysterious and tragic deaths of two student nurses send Adam Dalgliesh, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, to hunt the vicious killer seeking refuge in the Nightingale House.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 5
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Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh receives a call for advice from the elderly chaplain at Toynton Grange, an isolated nursing home on the coast of England. But by the time Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley has mysteriously died, as has one of his patients.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 7
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"In the little vestry of St. Matthew's Church in London, two bodies lie side by side like butchered animals -- one a government minister and the other a local derelict. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is head of a special squad at New Scotland Yard set up to investigate sensitive cases, and this gruesome double murder becomes one of the most complicated and demanding of his career, made more difficult by his familiarity with one of the victims."
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Edition
1st American trade ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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The police are trying to stop a psychopathic killer from strangling any more women in remote Larksoken, where Dalgliesh is escaping the hubbub of London.
9) Original sin
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 9
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
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416 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a brilliant but ruthless publishing house director.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
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p. cm.365p. 25cm.
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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The setting: 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...
12) The murder room
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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The Dupayne Museum, founded by Max Dupayne, is dedicated to the preservation of England's history between the world wars. As the museum's trustees, Max's three heirs -- Marcus, Neville, and Caroline -- debate the fate of the Dupayne. Brash psychiatrist Neville is determined to close it down, a position that is bitterly opposed by his two siblings. When Neville is found heinously murdered, Commander Adam Dalgliesh of the Special Investigation Squad...
13) The lighthouse
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior.
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Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty-seven-year-old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discovers a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on life around Cheverell Manor.