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Death in Holy Orders
by P. D. James
ISBN: 0345446666
ISBN-13: 9780345446664
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Scotland Yard's Inspector Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a divinity student.
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"[T]he muted mayhem, inquiries, interrogations and general back-and-forthings progress in mannered fashion. It's no less than one would expect from the pensive, saturnine Dalgliesh." -- Eugen Weber
-- Los Angeles Times
"Character, plot and setting take equal part in the work of P.D. James, and never have they been in greater supply than in DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS." -- Sarah Ferrell
-- New York Times Book Review
"DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS is among [James's] most remarkable and accomplished Dalgliesh novels." -- Desmond Ryan
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
"James's characters...are so deliciously sketched out that the fun here is far more in the reading of the novel...than in the ultimate denouement of the whodunit." -- Daneet Steffens
-- Entertainment Weekly
"Once again, [James] raises the mystery genre to the level of serious literature with her finely crafted prose, playful wit and keen eye for detail." -- David Lazarus
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Though she recently celebrated her 80th birthday, her mastery of creating a complete, living universe keeps us hoping for more from James for years to come." -- Bruce Southworth
-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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Publisher: Fawcett Books Published date: 2002 Size: 4 x 6.75 inches Weight: 0.5 pounds Pages: 429
Publisher's Notes
The untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, successful and powerful businessman Sir Alred Treeves, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery. Reprint.
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Ballantine Books, 2002. Paperback. Grade: C. Catalog: Mystery Crime Synopsis: 429 pages. On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then... ( more information) Offered by www.1stChoiceUsedBooks.com (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2002. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boys influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgleish, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in a remote, rarified community of the faithfuland the frightened. For when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime, but to begin an unholy order of murder. . .. Spine lines/tilt/edge rubs/no Stamps. Mass Market Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by Used Book Attic (United States)
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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Fawcett Books, 2002. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. On the cliffs of the East Anglican coast sits the theological college of St. Anselm's. When the body of one of the school's young ordinands is found buried in the sand, the boy's father, an influential businessman, demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees out of a desire to revisit a place where he spent happy summers as a youth. He soon finds himself drawn into the labyrinth of a violent mystery.; Spine creasing and cover wear. Still a nice looking copy. ( more information) Offered by The Moldy Bookstore.com (United States)
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Ballantine Books, 2002. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Spine lightly creased, spine slightly cocked. "On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy s in ( more information) Offered by Yesterday's Muse (United States)
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Fawcett, 2002-03-26. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback, Ballantine Books Edition, 2002. Commander Dalgliesh, P.D. James's great detective, returns after four years. An untimely death brings him to the East Anglian coast where a young man has fallen from a cliff at the small theological college of St. Anselm's. He agrees to investigate, but no sooner does Dalgliesh arrive than he finds himself drawn into the labyrinth of a violent mystery. (From book description.) Book is in good condition; all pages are clean, binding is tight, cover is glossy with light edge wear from shelving. ( more information) Offered by Home Business Publications (United States)
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Fawcett Books, 2002. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very good. . Near fine! Very slight general wear. Clean, straight, tight, unmarked. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Audience: General/trade....Free Del Conf all US orders. Safe packaging. Fast shipment. ( more information) Offered by Ace High (United States)
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Ballantine Books, 2001. Slight spinal creasing. Slight edgewar. No cover creasing.. ISBN: 0-345-44666-6. Paperback. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by SYBERKATZ Books (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11)
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Fawcett. Mass Market Paperback. 0345446666 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches 's Best of 2001 Despite challenges from Ruth Rendell and (more recently) Minette Walters, P.D. James's position as Britain's Queen of Crime remains largely unassailable. Although a certain reaction has set in to her reputation (and there are those who claim her poetry-loving copper Adam Dalgliesh doesn't correspond to any of his counterparts in the real world), her detractors can scarcely deny her astonishing literary gifts. More than any other writer, she has elevated the detective story into the realms of literature, with the psychology of the characters treated in the most complex and authoritative fashion. Her plots, too, are full of intriguing detail and studed with brilliantly observed character studies. Who cares if Dalgliesh belongs more in the pages of a book than poking around a graffiti-scrawled council estate? As a policeman, he is considerably more plausible than Doyle's Holmes, and that's never stopped us loving the Baker Street sleuth. Death in Holy Orders represents something of a challenge from James to her critics, taking on all the contentious elements and rigorously reinvigorating them. She had admitted that she was finding it increasingly difficult to find new plots for Dalgliesh, and the locale here (a theological college on a lonely stretch of the East Anglian coast) turns out to be an inspired choice. We're presented with the enclosed setting so beloved of golden age detective writers, and James is able to incorporate her theological interests seamlessly into the plot (but never in any doctrinaire way; the nonbeliever is never uncomfortable). The body of a student at the college is found on the shore, suffocated by a fall of sand. Dalgliesh is called upon to reexamine the verdict of accidental death (which the student's father would not accept). Having visited the College of St. Anselm in his boyhood, he finds the investigation has a strong nostalgic aspect for him. But that is soon overtaken by the realization that he has encountered the most horrific case of his career, and another visitor to the college dies a horrible death. As an exploration of evil--and as a piece of highly distinctive crime writing--this is James at her nonpareil best. Dalgliesh, too, is rendered with new dimensions of psychological complexity. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly 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 whodunit, with its extraordinarily complex and nuanced plot and large cast of credible characters. When the body of a young ordinand, Ronald Treeves, turns up buried in a sandy bank on the Suffolk coast near isolated St. Anselm's, a High Anglican theological college, it's unclear whether his death was an accident, suicide or murder. The mystery deepens a few days later when someone suffocates Margaret Munroe, a retired nurse with a bad heart, because she remembers an event 12 years earlier that could have some bearing on whatever's amiss at St. Anselm's. Enter Dalgliesh at the behest of Ronald's father, Sir Alred, who's received an anonymous note suggesting foul play in his son's death. It isn't long before another death occurs, and this time it's clearly murder: late one night in the chapel, somebody bashes in the head of Archdeacon Crampton, a hard-nosed outsider who wanted to close St. Anselm's. Dalgliesh and his investigative team examine the complicated motives of a host of suspects resident at the college, mostly ordinands and priests, slowly unveiling the connections among the various deaths. Illegitimacy, incest, a secret marriage, a missing cloak and a valuable altar triptych are just some of the ingredients in a case as contrived as any Golden Age classic but presented with such masterful ease and conviction that even the most skeptical readers will suspend disbelief. This is a natural for PBS Mystery adaptation. (Apr. 19)Forecast: With a 3 ...Experience, Quality, Value.... . Very Good. 2002. ( more information) Offered by Robinson Street Books (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11)
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Fawcett. Mass Market Paperback. 0345446666 From Our Editors The Barnes & Noble Review A number of traditions come seamlessly together in P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, another of her acclaimed mysteries featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh. Included among those traditions are the Golden Age detective story, the police procedural, the literary gothic, and the Victorian novel, with its stately prose, leisurely pacing, and abundant supply of social, familial, and psychological detail. The result of this eclectic combination is a multilayered narrative that works both as a murder mystery and as a complex meditation on faith, love, loyalty, vengeance, and personal responsibility. The bulk of the novel takes place at St. Anselm's, an embattled, isolated theological college on England's windswept East Anglian coast. When the body of seminarian Ronald Treeves is literally unearthed from a suffocating pile of sand, a coroner's jury turns in a verdict of accidental death. Arms manufacturer Sir Alred Treeves, Ronald's adoptive father, questions the verdict and arranges to have Dalgliesh reinvestigate the boy's death. Dalgliesh arrives at St. Anselm's at a particularly troubled moment. A longtime employee of the college has just died of an apparent heart attack, and a number of outside visitors have arrived to spend a restful rural weekend. Among the guests are a pair of visiting academics, a policeman on the verge of a breakdown, and Archdeacon Matthew Crampton, an ambitious cleric with a guilty secret and a vested interest in closing down the college. Crampton has had a history of hostile encounters, both with fellow guests and with various members of the seminary staff. On the morning after his arrival, his body is found, savagely beaten, in the sanctified precincts of St. Anselm's Church. As Dalgliesh soon learns, a great many of the weekend visitors had motives for murdering the archdeacon. Surrounding himself with a picked crew of Scotland Yard regulars, Dalgliesh spearheads a wide-ranging investigation that illuminates the events behind Crampton's death by first exposing the buried secrets of several interconnected lives. In the end, Dalgliesh -- poet, sleuth, and solitary widower -- successfully identifies a resourceful killer and opens himself up to the possibility of romantic and spiritual renewal. Death in Holy Orders is an engaging, old-fashioned, morally attractive novel by an 80-year-old master of the craft who continues to write with grace, clarity, and psychological acuity. At an age when most writers have long since passed their creative peaks, James has given us a fresh, quietly enthralling novel that raises large, important questions and solidifies its author's position as one of the dominant figures of late-20th-century crime fiction. (Bill Sheehan) Bill Sheehan reviews horror, suspense, and science fiction for Cemetery Dance, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. His book-length critical study of the fiction of Peter Straub, At the Foot of the Story Tree, has been published by Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com). From the Publisher The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm's. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school's young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants-and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son's death. Although there seems to be little to investigate, Dalgliesh agrees, largely out of nostal-gia for several happy summers he spent at St. Anselm's as a boy. No sooner does he arrive, however, than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself ineluctably drawn into the labyrinth of an intricate and violent mystery. Here P. D. James once more demonstrates her unrivalled skill in building a classic detective story into a ...Experience, Quality, Value.... . 2002. ( more information) Offered by Robinson Street Books (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders; an Adam Dalgliesh Novel
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2002. Very Good 1st Printing Stated. Mass Market Paperback, 429 pages. Binding is solid, several slight spine creases, crease along spine edge of front cover, crease to bottom back corner, slight edge wear, pages are clean, no marks to text, no owner information, gift messages, store stamp, remaimder marks, stains or water damage. Will gift wrap, no charge, just state the occasion. Scan available on request.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Caroline Leone BookServices (United States)
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James, P. D
New York, NY, U.S.A: Ballantine Publishing Group, 2002. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus. 1st prtg this ed. Complete, minor edgewear, minor spine creases, gently read. Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. . ISBN: 0345446666. ( more information) Offered by Books Past and Present (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders
P.D. James
New York: Ballantine, 2002. ISBN: 0345446666. First Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Mystery & Suspense. ( more information) Offered by PublishedPage (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
P.D. James
Fawcett, 2002-03-26. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Crease on back cover. Binding has creases from normal read.Thanks for shopping at Peaceful Valley Homestead ( more information) Offered by Peaceful Valley Homestead (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders
James, P. D
Ballantine Books, 2002 Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by North State Books (United States)
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Death in Holy Orders
James, P. D
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Fawcett Books, 2002 Paperback. Mild to moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps. Stamped.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information) O | |