P. D. James - Free Library Land Online - Anthologies https://anthologies.library.land/ ru P. D. James - Free Library Land Online - Anthologies DataLife Engine The Children of Men https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61542-the_children_of_men.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61542-the_children_of_men.html The Children of Men
Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.]]> Sat, 31 Oct 1992 02:21:14 +0200 The Skull Beneath the Skin https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61540-the_skull_beneath_the_skin.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61540-the_skull_beneath_the_skin.html The Skull Beneath the Skin

Review

“A fine novel . . . from its very first pages you feel you are in marvellously sure hands.”
—The Times

“Irresistible.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“Original, suspenseful, ingenious. . . . A whacking great whodunit by the reigning Queen of Mystery.”
—Calgary Sun

“Her concern with the psychological reality of her characters is complemented by a scrupulous attention to physical detail, an easy ear for dialogue and a concise voice for description. Taken together, these are an unfailing combination.”
—The Hamilton Spectator
"The reason it takes me so long to write is because it takes a long time for the characters to reveal themselves to me. My ambition as a writer is to make even the minor characters come alive."
—P. D. James
"James pulls out all the stops ... an overlay of lust; midnight apparitions; hairbreadth escapes."
*—New York Magazine
"A masterly version of the clue-and-alibi game ... five star."
—The Guardian
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Description

Fading star Clarissa Lisle plans a spectacular comeback in a private performance of Webster’s bloodcurdling tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, to be staged in an island castle owned by the eccentric collector Ambrose Gorringe. When she begins to receive poison-pen letters — bearing death threats couched in Shakespearean quotations — her husband hires young private detective Cordelia Gray to ensure her safety.
But before the curtain rises, one of the party will fall victim to a murderous blow, and as the suspense builds, it becomes clear to Cordelia that everyone confined within the walls of the castle seems to have an excellent motive for sending Clarissa Lisle “down, down to hell.”
From the Paperback edition.
]]> Sun, 31 Oct 1982 02:21:14 +0300 A Taste for Death https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61537-a_taste_for_death.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61537-a_taste_for_death.html A Taste for Death
]]> Fri, 31 Oct 1986 02:21:14 +0300 The Part-Time Job https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/554704-the_part-time_job.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/554704-the_part-time_job.html The Part-Time Job
Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, the undisputed "Queen of Crime," with a dark, twisted take on how the best revenge is served ice cold. Willing to wait decades to dispatch the bully who tormented his youth, our narrator has a plan—and the unwavering patience and brutal fortitude to enact its every chilling step. With merciless, meticulous efficiency, James takes us into the mind of a seemingly ordinary man, beneath whose unassuming guise lurks a true Machiavellian genius—for murder.]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:00:33 +0300 The Victim https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/501928-the_victim.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/501928-the_victim.html The Victim
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel any grievance?"I had been expecting this question. I knew exactly what I would say.'The late, great P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer.]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0200 Death in Holy Orders https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/605006-death_in_holy_orders.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/605006-death_in_holy_orders.html Death in Holy Orders

On a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast, high atop a sweep of cliffs, sits the theological college of St. Anselm's. Down below, smothered by a fall of sand, lies the body of a young ordinand, the son of a powerful business mogul who wants Scotland Yard to investigate his death. Dalgliesh, doubting there is much to uncover in the case, agrees to go, motivated only by a desire to revisit a place where he spent several happy summers in his boyhood. Yet no sooner does he arrive than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious murder and Dalgliesh finds himself embroiled in one of the most puzzling and horrific cases of his career: no one is above suspicion, and suspects abound. Elevated beyond the great classic detective stories of the Golden Age by the power of the writing, "Death in Holy Orders grips and moves us from beginning to end, blessed with extraordinary psychological and emotional richness. The memorable characters and the wonderfully evoked wild coastal setting and religious world in which the action takes place demonstrate yet again why P.D. James ranks as one of the great novelists of our time.

]]> Sat, 08 Jan 2000 13:45:58 +0200 Shroud for a Nightingale https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61530-shroud_for_a_nightingale.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61530-shroud_for_a_nightingale.html Shroud for a Nightingale
]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Sleep No More https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61525-sleep_no_more.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61525-sleep_no_more.html Sleep No More
No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private Patient.
It's not always a question of "whodunit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren't brought down even though they're found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through those six stories as we are drawn into the thinking, the memories, the emotional machinations, the rationalizations, the dreams and desires behind murderous cause...]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 02:21:12 +0200 A Mind to Murder https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61534-a_mind_to_murder.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61534-a_mind_to_murder.html A Mind to Murder
]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:21:13 +0200 Cover Her Face https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61528-cover_her_face.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61528-cover_her_face.html Cover Her Face
]]> Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:21:12 +0300 Innocent Blood https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61535-innocent_blood.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61535-innocent_blood.html Innocent Blood
Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. "As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred.

Review

Time The reigning mistress of murder.
People P. D. James is "the greatest living mystery writer."

From the Inside Flap

An original novel of extraordinary power, Innocent Blood is the story of 18-year-old Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, who is plunged into a dangerous and terrifying world when she discovers the shocking truth about her natural parents - and learns that her birth mother is about to be released from prison. Innocent Blood is considered by many to be one of P.D. James' finest novels.
]]> Fri, 31 Oct 1980 02:21:13 +0300 Devices and Desires https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61541-devices_and_desires.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61541-devices_and_desires.html Devices and Desires
]]> Tue, 31 Oct 1989 02:21:14 +0300 Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61531-sleep_no_more_six_murderous_tales.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61531-sleep_no_more_six_murderous_tales.html Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
No one gets inside the head of the murderer—or makes it a more thrilling read—than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and *The Private Patient.* It's not always a question of "whodunit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren't brought down even though they're found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through those six stories as we are drawn into the thinking, the memories, the emotional machinations, the rationalizations, the dreams and desires behind murderous cause and effect. **
]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 02:21:13 +0200 Death Comes to Pemberley https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61544-death_comes_to_pemberley.html https://anthologies.library.land/p-d-james/61544-death_comes_to_pemberley.html Death Comes to Pemberley
In a marvellous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing crime fiction.

The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome, healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth's happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual autumn ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered.

Death Comes to Pemberley is a powerful work...]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:21:15 +0200