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Adam Dalgliesh Series

14 primary works • 18 total works
Mysteries featuring an English police detective. Connected to James' Cordelia Gray series.

Book 1

Cover Her Face
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3.90 · 41726 Ratings · 2043 Reviews · published 1962 · 202 editions
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sall…

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    Book 2

    A Mind to Murder
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    3.80     · 15591 Ratings · 918 Reviews · published 1963 · 159 editions
    The second book to feature Scotland Yard investiga…

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    Book 3

    Unnatural Causes
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    3.89     · 17445 Ratings · 796 Reviews · published 1967 · 28 editions
    An Adam Dalgleish Mystery

    Superintendent Adam Dalgl…

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    Book 4

    Shroud for a Nightingale
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    4.03     · 27482 Ratings · 839 Reviews · published 1971 · 79 editions
    Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Ti…

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    Book 5

    The Black Tower
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    3.95     · 20245 Ratings · 649 Reviews · published 1975 · 6 editions
    Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-th…

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    Book 6

    Death of an Expert Witness
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    3.94     · 14846 Ratings · 588 Reviews · published 1977 · 11 editions
    Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a blood…

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    Book 7

    A Taste for Death
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    4.02     · 16574 Ratings · 754 Reviews · published 1986 · 156 editions
    When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Chur…

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    Book 8

    Devices and Desires
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    3.96     · 15355 Ratings · 707 Reviews · published 1989 · 117 editions
    When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a …

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    Book 9

    Original Sin
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    3.91     · 12627 Ratings · 652 Reviews · published 1994 · 4 editions
    The literary world is shaken when a murder takes p…

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    Book 9.1 (taken from Original Sin)

    Innocent House
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    3.82     · 329 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    P.D. James has been writing extremely popular, hig…

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    Book 10

    A Certain Justice
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    3.95     · 11967 Ratings · 807 Reviews · published 1997 · 150 editions
    It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for m…

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    Book 11

    Death in Holy Orders
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    3.92     · 17713 Ratings · 993 Reviews · published 2001 · 126 editions
    From the award-winning master of literary crime fi…

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    Book 12

    The Murder Room
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    3.86     · 15709 Ratings · 931 Reviews · published 2003 · 114 editions
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Murders present meet murders…

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    Book 13

    The Lighthouse
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    3.86     · 19183 Ratings · 1207 Reviews · published 2005 · 44 editions
    Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers respite …

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    Book 14

    The Private Patient
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    3.81     · 19399 Ratings · 1716 Reviews · published 2008 · 117 editions
    Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called i…

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    Book 3-4

    Tod im weißen Häubchen / Ein unverhofftes Geständnis
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · published 1993 · 1 edition
    Vor den Augen der entsetzten Schwestersch�lerinnen…

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    Book 1-6

    P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness
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    4.30     · 76 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2015 · 1 edition
    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a g…

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    The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
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    3.75     · 12509 Ratings · 1688 Reviews · published 2016 · 44 editions
    Four previously uncollected stories from one of th…

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