P. D. James
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As the category of great page-to-screen storytelling continues to grow, we scoured our libraries, grilled audiophiles and cinephiles, and vetted the entire Audible catalog for the 100 greatest screen adaptations for watchers and listeners alike. These are the stories that inspired some of the greatest on-screen stories of all time, from Academy Award winners and cult classics to must-see TV. They're well worth the price of admission.
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P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi, Hugh Grant, full cast, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words....
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Desert Island drama
- By Adeliese Baumann on 02-13-18
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P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi, Hugh Grant, full cast, Judi Bowker, Philip Franks, Robin Ellis, Siân Phillips, Richard Derrington
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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Sleep No More
- Six Murderous Tales
- By: Peter Kemp - foreword, P. D. James
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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No one gets inside the head of the murderer - or makes it a more thrilling listen - than the late, great P. D. James....
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Perfectly crafted short stories
- By RueRue on 02-02-18
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Sleep No More
- Six Murderous Tales
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-14-17
- Language: English
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Death in Holy Orders
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Don't
- By Deborah on 09-29-03
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Death in Holy Orders
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 11
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-26-01
- Language: English
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Original Sin
- Adam Dalgliesh, Book 9
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
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Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists....
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as always PD James is good
- By Kristine on 12-11-14
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Original Sin
- Adam Dalgliesh, Book 9
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 9
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-15-13
- Language: English
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Devices and Desires
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery, Book 8
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline....
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Another book ruined
- By Sherri on 05-05-12
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Devices and Desires
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery, Book 8
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 8
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-01-12
- Language: English
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The Private Patient
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation....
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Problem with narrator.
- By R & J Sentman on 12-12-08
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The Private Patient
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 14
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-18-08
- Language: English
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Diana Bishop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem.....
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Fascinating and Informative
- By Nancy J on 03-17-13
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- Narrated by: Diana Bishop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 04-01-10
- Language: English
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A Mind to Murder
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate....
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A Mind to Read More of James
- By Holly Helscher on 01-20-09
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A Mind to Murder
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-09-08
- Language: English
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The Black Tower
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and best-selling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder” (Time), P.D. James. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest....
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Caveat: One of Her Best, But...
- By Louie Crew Clay on 02-24-15
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The Black Tower
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 5
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-03-09
- Language: English
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The Mistletoe Murder
- And Other Stories
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time - swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh)....
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I worship at the alter of p d james
- By Sherrie Lindley on 08-09-17
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The Mistletoe Murder
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-25-16
- Language: English
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The Murder Room
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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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....
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Classic P.D. James
- By Jim on 11-23-03
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The Murder Room
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 12
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-14-03
- Language: English
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby....
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quite suitable
- By Holly Helscher on 01-20-09
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Cordelia Gray, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-06-09
- Language: English
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Innocent Blood
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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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....
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A Classic British Mystery
- By Karen Vincent on 12-23-14
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Innocent Blood
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-07-09
- Language: English
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A Taste for Death
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 22 hrs and 20 mins
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When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum....
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Classic PD James
- By Jody R. Nathan on 02-24-10
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A Taste for Death
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 7
- Length: 22 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-03-09
- Language: English
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The Lighthouse
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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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....
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Outstanding!
- By jb on 11-23-05
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The Lighthouse
- An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 13
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-21-05
- Language: English
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Cover Her Face
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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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....
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OK but...
- By NoelleJ on 11-14-14
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Cover Her Face
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-18-08
- Language: English
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life....
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The 2nd & last Cordelia Gray Mystery!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-17-16
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Cordelia Gray, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-07-09
- Language: English
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Shroud for a Nightingale
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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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 killed....
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Early P.D. James is the best P.D. James
- By red-herring12 on 08-07-18
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Shroud for a Nightingale
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-08-09
- Language: English
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Death of an Expert Witness
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery....
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Hard to Hear
- By John L on 07-15-09
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Death of an Expert Witness
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 6
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-03-09
- Language: English
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The Children of Men
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel....
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Perfect Narrator for a Brilliant Satire
- By Peter Crawford on 12-11-15
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The Children of Men
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-20-12
- Language: English
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