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A British woman lawyer is murdered soon after successfully defending her client who was on trial for murder. As he opens an investigation, Commander Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard learns the man recently became engaged to the lawyer's daughter. Is there a connection?
3) Original sin
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"Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies - a discarded mistress, a rejected...
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On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is one of the most reputable institutions in London. But when the administrative head is found dead with a chisel in her heart, that distinguished facade begins to crumble as the truth emerges. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate and quickly finds himself caught in a whirlwind of psychiatry, drugs, and deceit.
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In the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church, the body of a government minister listed next to a neighborhood derelict; both with their throats slit. Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh is challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives. As he explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice, can Dalgliesh fill the gap of logic that joined...
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"When headstrong and beautiful housemaid Sally Jupp is found strangled in her bed behind a bolted door, Detective Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must unmask her killer from a houseful of suspects--most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill."--Page 4 of cover.
10) The murder room
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a trustee of the Dupayne, a small private London museum locked in a battle over its future, and find their probe complicated by a second corpse.
11) The lighthouse
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
12) The black tower
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Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more?
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Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 1, 2
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Mystery Guild
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[2009?]
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Cover her face: A beautiful, scheming young girl comes to Mrs. Maxie's house to help look after her invalid husband. When a murder upsets the peaceful country household, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is called in from Scotland Yard. A mind to murder : Attempts by Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh to find a murderer are complicated when psychiatrists at the fashionable Steen Clinic decide to play detective. An unsuitable job for a woman : Left alone by...
16) Unnatural causes
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Terror strikes the hearts and minds of the bizarre friends of Maurice Seton, the famous mystery writer, when they learn that his mutilated corpse was found in a drifting dinghy.
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