James P : 719 books

Excerpt: "Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities--I might almost say the oddities--of that particular epoch in the building art. Chimneys innumerable had it. Heaven only knows what rooms they ventilated;...

On late evening in June of 1959 gunshots echoed through southills neighborhood of West Covina, California. Dr. R. Bernard Finch had murdered his wife, Barbara Jean. His accomplice was his 18 year old paramour, Carole Tregoff. The only witness; the young au pare from Sweden, Marie Anne Lidholm. Three...

Comprehensive coverage of improvements in cultivation techniques across the potato value chain, from yield modelling to post-harvest storage Detailed review of the main fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting potatoes Assesses the environmental impact of potato cultivation

Miss Bolam, la directrice administrative de la clinique Steen, centre de psychothérapie des beaux quartiers de Londres, a été assassinée dans la salle des archives médicales. On la trouve au milieu des dossiers éparpillés, un burin en plein coeur et, sur la poitrine, une monstrueuse sculpture...

Cette nouvelle intrigue concoctée par P.D. James se déroule dans le huis clos d?un petit musée londonien, le Dupayne, dédié aux années de l?entre-deux-guerres, véritable enclave de verdure et de calme située à la lisière du parc de Hampstead Heath. Administrée par les trois enfants de son...

Dans ce livre très personnel, à la fois journal intime et mémoires, ED. James se penche sur les douze mois de sa vie qui vont de son soixante-dix-septième à son soixante-dix-huitième anniversaire, du 3 août 1997 au 2 août 1998. Elle fait alterner des descriptions d'événements quotidiens,...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

P.D. James explora el desarrollo de un género novelístico que ha estimulado y enriquecido el imaginario popular como no lo ha hecho ningún otro. Después de casi cincuenta años a la vanguardia de la novela de misterio, con una veintena de best sellers en su haber, dieciséis de los cuales...

A fantastic historical novel about the adventures of a highwayman.

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. P. D. James...

The third installment in the classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, Unnnatural Causes is another must-read page-turner from bestselling author P.D. James, “the reigning mistress of murder” (Time). Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer—but no murder he ever invented was more grisly...