Commander Adam Dalgliesh was not unused to being urgently summoned to non-scheduled meetings with unspecified people at inconvenient times, but usually with one purpose in common: he could be ...

Few novelists have remained at the top of their form as long as P. D. James has. Though her new Adam Dalgliesh mystery isn’t among the 88-year-old writer’s best (as The Lighthouse, published when she ...

If—as some reviewers have speculated— The Lighthouse marks the end of James's 13-book mystery series about policeman/poet Adam Dalgliesh, at least in this artful and gripping audio version the ...

Baroness James may have turned 80, but neither she nor her dogged Scotland Yard detective Commander Adam Dalgliesh (last seen in 1997's A Certain Justice) shows any sign of flagging in this superb ...

P.D. James's latest murder mystery, the 14th to feature Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh of London's Metropolitan Police Service, is not the most formidable example of this iconic author's work, but it's still ...

Phyllis Dorothy James White worked in British public service for 30 years, including a stretch at the Home Office's police and criminal law department. A late starter as a novelist (she first ...

Adam Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) is a police inspector, acclaimed poet, and recent widower. In this British mystery series based on the books by P.D. James, Dalgliesh uses his deep insights into the ...