Mystery

Adam Dalgliesh

P.D. James

14 books

Commander Adam Dalgliesh — detective, poet, and profoundly private man — investigates murders in institutional England in P.D. James's landmark elevation of crime fiction to literary art.

Reading Order

  1. 1.

    Cover Her Face

    P.D. James elevated the police procedural to literature — start here.

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  2. 2.

    A Mind to Murder

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  3. 3.

    Unnatural Causes

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  4. 4.

    Shroud for a Nightingale

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  5. 5.

    The Black Tower

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  6. 6.

    Death of an Expert Witness

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  7. 7.

    A Taste for Death

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  8. 8.

    Devices and Desires

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  9. 9.

    Original Sin

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  10. 10.

    A Certain Justice

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