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Series 2, Episodes 3 & 4: A Certain Justice: Dalgliesh investigates the murder of defence barrister Venetia Aldridge. Could a client for whom she recently secured an acquittal be involved in her death? [36] [37] Series 2, Episodes 5 & 6: The Murder Room: A young doctor is set on fire in the grounds of his family museum. Everyone who works there ...
Devices and Desires is a 1989 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, the eighth book of her Adam Dalgliesh series. It takes place on Larksoken, a fictional isolated headland in Norfolk. The title comes from the service of Morning Prayer in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: "We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts".
Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh. [2]
Detective Superintendent Dalgliesh arrives to spend what he hopes will be a quiet few days at his Aunt Jane’s property in the remote maritime Suffolk hamlet of Monksmere. Other property owners there include the widowed detective novelist Maurice Seton, drama critic Oliver Latham, magazine editor Justin Bryce, romantic novelist Celia Calthrop ...
The BBC adapted the book for a two-part, three-hour TV production released in 2004, starring Martin Shaw as Dalgliesh and Janie Dee as Lavenham. The production was released on DVD in the U.S. in October 2005. A further adaptation was aired in 2023 as part of the Dalgliesh series starring Bertie Carvel.
Original Sin is a 1994 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, the ninth book of her Adam Dalgliesh series. It is set in London, mainly in Wapping in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, and centers on the city's oldest publishing house, Peverell Press, headquartered in a mock-Venetian palace on the River Thames.
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This concentrates on the main murder, noting only that the death of the girl in the clunch pit had been investigated by Dalgliesh "a few months previously". [5] A two-hour adaptation (split into two 1-hour segments) was co-commissioned by Channel 5 as the first episode of the second series of Dalgleish, with Bertie Carvel in the title role. It ...