Russell's ebook Library
1 - Cover Her Face
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [1]: Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white...
2 - A Mind to Murder
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [2]: On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic has always been one of the most eminent institutions in London. But when its administrative head is found with a chisel in her heart, and a weird wooden phallic symbol in her ...
3 - Unnatural Causes
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [3]: Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer — but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread a...
4 - Shroud for a Nightingale
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [4]: Dalgliesh is also a streaming series starring Bertie Carvel — now in its third season!The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient...
5 - The Black Tower
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [5]: 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, F...
6 - Death of an Expert Witness
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [6]: An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is ...
7 - A Taste for Death
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [7]: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh e...
8 - Devices and Desires
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [8]: Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his au...
9 - Original Sin
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [9]: Innocent House is a mock-Venetian palace occupied by Britain's oldest book publisher, Peverell Press. After a spate of malicious pranks, the ruthless managing director, Gerard Etienne, is found dead, the office mascot, a...
10 - A Certain Justice
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [10]: When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within we...
11 - Death in Holy Orders
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [11]: 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 powerf...
12 - The Murder Room
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [12]: Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne—a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time — when he is called to investigate the killing of...
13 - The Lighthouse
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [13]: Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the island’s famous lighthouse in what appears to have been a murder, the peace is sh...
14 - The Private Patient
P. D. James
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh [14]: Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfi...
