Faber and Faber Shroud for a Nightingale Джеймс Филлис Дороти

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family’s veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man’s theological college, St Anselm’s, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, secrets and mystery as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder

Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful retreat for the rich and the powerful. But the peace of the island is violated when one of its distinguished visitors is murdered • Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects that there is a second brutal killing and the whole investigation is jeopardised when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder

The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies – a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard’s body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again

В целом, это было легче, чем я ожидал. Только однажды я почувствовал, что подвергаюсь риску. Это было, когда внезапно вмешался инспектор. Он сказал резким голосом: "Он женился на вашей жене, не так ли? Некоторые люди могли бы сказать, что он забрал ее у вас. Судя по ее виду, она неплохой товар. Вы не испытывали никаких обид?" • Я ожидал этого вопроса. Я точно знал, что скажу • В романе "Жертва" великая П.Д. Джеймс погружает нас в сознание убийцы • Книга на английском языке • On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: “He married your wife, didn’t he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her

Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend’s death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But won’t leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt’s forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again

When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt’s estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn’t the only murderer at work under the sinister shadow of the power station

Вот уже шесть лет Элизабет и Дарси счастливы в браке. У них двое сыновей, рядом любящие друзья и родные. Но однажды в их дом приходит беда: муж сестры Элизабет, известный своим легкомыслием капитан Уикхем, становится главным подозреваемым по делу о жестоком убийстве своего приятеля. У него нет алиби, зато есть мотив. И на него же указывают все улики • На репутацию семьи брошена тень, Уикхема ждет смертная казнь, однако Дарси и Элизабет уверены, что Уикхем невиновен. Но где же найти доказательства? • Филиппа, прелестная приемная дочь знаменитого ученого, стала наконец взрослой и сделала шокирующее открытие – ее настоящая мать совершила страшное преступление и вот-вот выйдет из заключения • Пока Филиппа строит планы встречи с матерью, на поиски этой же женщины отправляется еще один человек

Смерть провинциального священника Брэддли выглядит вполне естественно… но опытный детектив Адам Дэлглиш подозревает, что это - убийство. Однако кому и зачем понадобилось лишать жизни пожилого человека? • Вскоре Дэлглиш приходит к шокирующему выводу: убийство его друга - лишь звено в цепи загадочных смертей, к которым причастен безжалостный убийца…