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Published by Knopf, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307592820ISBN 13: 9780307592828
Seller: Open Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Vintage, 2011
ISBN 10: 0307743136ISBN 13: 9780307743138
Seller: Bulk Book Warehouse, Rotterdam, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Shows minimal wear such as frayed or folded edges, minor rips and tears, and/or slightly worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages.
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Published by Bodleian Library, United Kingdom, 2009
ISBN 10: 1851243097ISBN 13: 9781851243099
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christies Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P.D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for more than fifty years as a novelist. From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Village Priest from Cubhole in Essex, from the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars to the achievements of the present and a glimpse at the future, P.D. James explores the metamorphosis of a genre which has gripped and entertained the popular imagination like no other type of novel. Written by the author widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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paperback. Condition: Good. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!.
Published by Faber & Faber, 2010
ISBN 10: 057125358XISBN 13: 9780571253586
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
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Published by Imprint unknown, 2009
ISBN 10: 0571253555ISBN 13: 9780571253555
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Blackstone Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 079276904XISBN 13: 9780792769040
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition and ready to ship - Guaranteed to play!!.
Published by Knopf Canada, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307398803ISBN 13: 9780307398802
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Good. 1ST. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Knopf
ISBN 10: 1616646217ISBN 13: 9781616646219
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.
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Published by Sphere Books, 1983
ISBN 10: 0722151888ISBN 13: 9780722151884
Seller: Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art, Oakville, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book has been used, minor wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page by previous owner. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, some creases. "Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death." Good Reads "P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. In 1941 she married Ernest C.B. White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs. Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing. Dalgliesh, James s master detective who rises from chief inspector in the first novel to chief superintendent and then to commander, is a serious, introspective person, moralistic yet realistic. The novels in which he appears are peopled by fully rounded characters, who are civilized, genteel, and motivated. The public resonance created by James s singular characterization and deployment of classic mystery devices led to most of the novels featuring Dalgliesh being filmed for television. James, who earned the sobriquet Queen of Crime, penned 14 Dalgliesh novels, with the last, The Private Patient, appearing in 2008. James also wrote An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982), which centre on Cordelia Gray, a young private detective. The first of these novels was the basis for both a television movie and a short-lived series. James expanded beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813) amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen s characters by situating them in the midst of a murder investigation. James s nonfiction works include The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971), a telling of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 written with historian T.A. Critchley, and the insightful Talking About Detective Fiction (2009). Her memoir, Time to Be in Earnest, was published in 2000. She was made OBE in 1983 and was named a life peer in 1991." Good Reads.
Published by Sphere Books Limited, 1987
ISBN 10: 0722151101ISBN 13: 9780722151105
Seller: Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art, Oakville, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. This book has been used, very minor wear to corners of back cover. Minor pencil marking first inner pages, no other markings inner pages. Spine intact, minor crease. "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." Good Reads "P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. In 1941 she married Ernest C.B. White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs. Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing. Dalgliesh, James s master detective who rises from chief inspector in the first novel to chief superintendent and then to commander, is a serious, introspective person, moralistic yet realistic. The novels in which he appears are peopled by fully rounded characters, who are civilized, genteel, and motivated. The public resonance created by James s singular characterization and deployment of classic mystery devices led to most of the novels featuring Dalgliesh being filmed for television. James, who earned the sobriquet Queen of Crime, penned 14 Dalgliesh novels, with the last, The Private Patient, appearing in 2008. James also wrote An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982), which centre on Cordelia Gray, a young private detective. The first of these novels was the basis for both a television movie and a short-lived series. James expanded beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813) amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen s characters by situating them in the midst of a murder investigation. James s nonfiction works include The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971), a telling of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 written with historian T.A. Critchley, and the insightful Talking About Detective Fiction (2009). Her memoir, Time to Be in Earnest, was published in 2000. She was made OBE in 1983 and was named a life peer in 1991." Good Reads.
Published by Scribner, 2001
ISBN 10: 0743219627ISBN 13: 9780743219624
Seller: Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art, Oakville, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book is in fair condition, minor fold to front cover, minor wear to edge of back cover. Some folds to corners of inner pages, no markings. A readible copy. Spine is broken, but pages are all intact, none falling out. "Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learns that there is more to human beings than meets the eye -- and more to solving a murder than the obvious clues." Good Reads "P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. In 1941 she married Ernest C.B. White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs. Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing. Dalgliesh, James s master detective who rises from chief inspector in the first novel to chief superintendent and then to commander, is a serious, introspective person, moralistic yet realistic. The novels in which he appears are peopled by fully rounded characters, who are civilized, genteel, and motivated. The public resonance created by James s singular characterization and deployment of classic mystery devices led to most of the novels featuring Dalgliesh being filmed for television. James, who earned the sobriquet Queen of Crime, penned 14 Dalgliesh novels, with the last, The Private Patient, appearing in 2008. James also wrote An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982), which centre on Cordelia Gray, a young private detective. The first of these novels was the basis for both a television movie and a short-lived series. James expanded beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813) amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen s characters by situating them in the midst of a murder investigation. James s nonfiction works include The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971), a telling of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 written with historian T.A. Critchley, and the insightful Talking About Detective Fiction (2009). Her memoir, Time to Be in Earnest, was published in 2000. She was made OBE in 1983 and was named a life peer in 1991." Good Reads.
Published by Knopf, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307592820ISBN 13: 9780307592828
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket.
Published by AudioGO, 2011
ISBN 10: 1609981936ISBN 13: 9781609981938
Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Audio CD. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
ISBN 10: 030726291XISBN 13: 9780307262912
Seller: Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art, Oakville, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This book has been read, no wear to covers, minor wear to dust covers. Some staining to page edges, minor mark on first page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers respite to over-stressed high authorities who require privacy and security. But demanding author Nathan Oliver is found strangled and hanging from the renovated lighthouse. Investigator Adam Dagliesh, his inspector Kate Miskin, and sergeant Francis Benton are all pre-occupied with their personal and love lives. The first victim was thoroughly disliked by visitors and residents for valid reasons, but the second, a recovered alcoholic priest, was admired by the skeleton staff. Suspects include Oliver's daughter Miranda, editor Dennis, animal researcher Dr Yelland, recently orphaned Dan, aged Emily, boatman Jago, sickly Dr Speidel, physician Dr Stavely and his unfaithful wife Jo, administrator Maycroft, housekeeper Mrs Plunkett, cook Mrs Burbridge, rebellious teen Millie. Past murders are uncovered and SARS threatens the island." Good Reads "P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. In 1941 she married Ernest C.B. White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs. Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing. Dalgliesh, James s master detective who rises from chief inspector in the first novel to chief superintendent and then to commander, is a serious, introspective person, moralistic yet realistic. The novels in which he appears are peopled by fully rounded characters, who are civilized, genteel, and motivated. The public resonance created by James s singular characterization and deployment of classic mystery devices led to most of the novels featuring Dalgliesh being filmed for television. James, who earned the sobriquet Queen of Crime, penned 14 Dalgliesh novels, with the last, The Private Patient, appearing in 2008. James also wrote An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982), which centre on Cordelia Gray, a young private detective. The first of these novels was the basis for both a television movie and a short-lived series. James expanded beyond the mystery genre in The Children of Men (1992; film 2006), which explores a dystopian world in which the human race has become infertile. Her final work, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) a sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1813) amplifies the class and relationship tensions between Jane Austen s characters by situating them in the midst of a murder investigation. James s nonfiction works include The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971), a telling of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 written with historian T.A. Critchley, and the insightful Talking About Detective Fiction (2009). Her memoir, Time to Be in Earnest, was published in 2000. She was made OBE in 1983 and was named a life peer in 1991. " Good Reads.
Published by Vintage Books Canada, 2010
ISBN 10: 0307398811ISBN 13: 9780307398819
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.52.
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Published by Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2009
Seller: susan emson, Cirencester, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition.The craft of detective writing.
Published by THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD ENGLAND, 2009
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine to Near Fine. Excellent fine interior just a small inscribed personal bookplate to front e/paper, fine boards; d/jacket near-fine to fine excellent appearance showing only a slight hint of previous usage.
Published by The Bodleian Library, 2009
ISBN 10: 1851243097ISBN 13: 9781851243099
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper.
Published by [Bodleian Library, Oxford,] [2009], 2009
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Published by BODLEIAN LIBRARY
Seller: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, United Kingdom
2009 1ST FINE /FINE.
Published by Alfred a Knopf, New York, 2009
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Published by B (Ediciones B), 2010
ISBN 10: 8466644423ISBN 13: 9788466644426
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Vintage
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Annotations to some page edges/pages, may include notes, highlighting or underlining.
Published by Faber and Faber, 2009
Seller: Librodifaccia, Alessandria, AL, Italy
Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.
Published by Alfred a Knopf, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307592820ISBN 13: 9780307592828
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy. The human race has had an appetite for mysteries from the earliest writings and no doubt tales of mystery and murder were recounted by our remote ancestors round the camp fires by the tribal storyteller. We are particularly intrigued by the motives which cause a man or woman to step across the invisible line which separates a murderer from the rest of humanity. Human beings also love a puzzle and a strong story, and mysteries have both. There is perhaps no one who could write about this enduring genre of storytelling with equal authority and flair that P.D. James. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Book.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 0307398803ISBN 13: 9780307398802
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. viii, 198pp w bibliography and nine illustrations. Tan boards, red quarter-wrap spine w crisp silver lettering. No wear to covers or spine. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Duo-decimo. First North American Edition, stated.
Published by Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2009
ISBN 10: 1851243097ISBN 13: 9781851243099
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket unclipped (no price). Red boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Here James "examines the cahllenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for more than fifty years as a novelist.".
Published by Alfred A. Knopf 2009, 2009
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo, hard cover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Knopf, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307592820ISBN 13: 9780307592828
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. ; Half red cover over tan boards is pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has light shelf wear but clean, bright, and very good+. Publisher's price of $22.00 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust. ); 7.6 X 4.7 X 1.0 inches; 198 pages.