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P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
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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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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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A Certain Justice
- An Adam Dalgliesh Novel
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
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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....
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Love those British Detectives
- By Angelyn S. Furst on 01-27-16
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A Certain Justice
- An Adam Dalgliesh Novel
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 10
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-15-13
- 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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