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Dalgliesh is a British crime drama television series, based on the Adam Dalgliesh novels by PD James. Bertie Carvel stars as the title character , an enigmatic detective–poet. The six-part series premiered on Acorn TV on 1 November 2021 in the United States followed by a Channel 5 premiere on 4 November in the United Kingdom.
Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray .
Roy Marsden (born Roy Anthony Mould; 25 June 1941 [not verified in body]) is an English actor who portrayed Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations (1983–1998) of P. D. James's detective novels, and Neil Burnside in the spy drama The Sandbaggers (1979–1980).
In 2024, Acorn TV released Season 3 of Dalgliesh starring Bertie Carvel as the poet-detective. Carvel's performance has been well received by legacy [5] [6] [7] and online [8] [9] media, with Barbara Ellen describing his Season 3 performance in The Observer (December 22, 2024) as "meticulously subtle, dignified and steeped in underlying ...
A Taste for Death is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's Live Flesh. It was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1987. [1] The book has been adapted for television and radio.
A Certain Justice is a detective novel by British writer P. D. James, published in 1997 by Faber & Faber in the UK [1] and by Alfred A. Knopf in the US. [2] It was the tenth to feature her recurring character Adam Dalgliesh and the book was dedicated to her five grandchildren.
In a psychiatric clinic late one night, the piercing scream of a dying woman shatters the calm, and Detective Superintendent Dalgliesh is called away from his literary soiree to investigate. He soon finds the body of a clinic employee sprawled across the cold basement floor, a chisel driven mercilessly through her heart; and so marks the ...
Unnatural Causes is a 1993 television film adaptation of the 1967 detective novel of the same name by P. D. James written by Peter Buckman.Differing in several details from the original plot, it stars Roy Marsden as Commander Adam Dalgliesh and is part of the Dalgleish series of television films.