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	Adam Dalgliesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adam Dalgliesh is a fictional character who has been the protagonist of thirteen mystery novels by P.
		Dalgliesh, who holds the high position of Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in London, is an intensely cerebral and private person.
		Jane Dalgliesh was Adam Dalgiesh's aunt and his sole living relative until her death prior to Devices and Desires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Dalgliesh (830 words)

	P.D. James Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is called in to investigate the murder of the drug-dealing Valudus as part of an ongoing investigation, and at first discount the involvement of Jupp.
		Dalgliesh and partner DS John Massingame (John Vine) have to break through the wall of fear and silence erected around the workers at the lab in order to find the killer, and their investigation uncovers even more unnerving information about the local police.
		Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden, in a particularly unfortunate hairpiece) faces one of his most bizarre cases when the body of writer Maurice Seaton is discovered floating in a row-boat off the coast of Suffex.
	www.classicsondvd.com /dalgleish.htm (2694 words)

	MYSTERY!: The Detectives: Adam Dalgliesh
		Dalgliesh may indeed be the best Scotland Yard has to offer these days.
		His reputation for never theorizing ahead of the facts is legendary, yet his success at solving complex cases in record time is astonishing.
		All of that may accouunt for the string of promotions that have raised him to the rank of commander, in charge of a special unit of the Metropolitan Police that handles only the most "sensitive" murder cases.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/detectives/dalgliesh.html (236 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh: A Taste For Death: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dalgliesh, a perfect and perhaps unique blend of humble compassion and take-no-prisoners probing mind, becomes the thread in a complex tale of multiple motives, seething emotions, unusual suspects, and such puzzling clues as a burnt diary, all in the effort to find an elusive link between two dead men of very different breeding and destinies.
		Adam Dalgliesh or "AD" as he is known by his staff at New Scotland Yard often finds himself in the middle of an upper class family crises that has resulted in murder.
		Berowne contacts Adam for a meeting where he shares his plans to pursue a "higher calling", leave government, and leave his old life behind As Dalgliesh's own father was a Church of England vicar, and Adam considered taking up a similar vocation at one time, it seems natural that Paul confides his plans in him.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008973N (674 words)

	P. D. James's Works
		Dalgliesh is in the neighborhood for a publishing party and takes charge of the case.
		One can tell that she is still finding her own style, however, as the plot is not driven by the characters in the way of her later books; the murderer is brought to justice, with assorted other malfeasances tidied up, and the characters are textured and interesting, but the two strands are not strongly related.
		The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham, but their relationship, at a sensitive stage for them both, is continually frustrated by the demands of his job.
	pbpl.physics.ucla.edu /~yoder/mystery/jameswork.html (1001 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE LIGHTHOUSE by P. D. James
		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 confident that somewhere there lay a dead body awaiting his attention.
		Dalgliesh, as a permanent ADC to the Commissioner, had a number of functions which, as they grew in number and importance, had become so ill-defined that most of his colleagues had given up trying to define them.
		Dalgliesh, for whom few of the labyrinths of Westminster bureaucracy were wholly unfamiliar, had earlier decided that this dichotomy of character was inherited.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/030726291X-excerpt.asp (3166 words)

	P.D James: The Murder Room by P.D. James
		Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees.
		It took Dalgliesh only a few minutes to collect the papers he needed from his office, hear from his PA what had happened during his absence and drive his Jaguar from the underground car-park.
		Dalgliesh did not reply and, glancing at his face, at the sensitive hands for a second tightening on the wheel, Ackroyd thought it prudent to change the subject.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/pdjames/murderroom.html (2035 words)

	PD James
		Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice - all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death...
		As Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team probe the bizarre death of publishing magnate Gerard Etienne, a ruthless man with many enemies, they uncover a complex web of dark secrets and revenge and a desperate killer prepared to strike once again.
		Dalgliesh has visited St Anselm's in his boyhood and, as he is due for a holiday, agrees to pay a visit.
	www.bastulli.com /James/PDJAMES.htm (1171 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Murder Room by P. D. James
		Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees.
		Dalgliesh's first visit to the museum just a week before the first murder, we are told, is "one of life's bizarre coincidences which.
		Adam Dalgliesh is in love: "He felt as vulnerable as a boy in love for the first time.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/murder_room1.asp (1061 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		As far as I know, she intends to keep writing about Adam Dalgliesh, but if the series has to end, this one has a coda-like feel about it and it could serve as the final case for the brilliant sleuth.
		Dalgliesh was a very modern sort of man. He had none of the cynicism of the old-fashioned American "hard-boiled" detectives like Hammett's Sam Spade or Chandler's Philip Marlowe.
		Maybe Marsden's Dalgliesh was a spot too arrogant and disdainful, but I have a suspicion Emma would have looked forward to her future with him with much more enthusiam than she shows for the professorial Shaw in the movie.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller471.html (1404 words)

	BBC - Drama - PD James' Death In Holy Orders
		Dalgliesh faces murder, greed, corruption and a serial killer on the loose in the most difficult and personal case of his career.
		When one of the young ordinands dies in suspicious circumstances, his industrialist father is convinced that the college authorities have glossed over the truth to avoid a scandal.
		It is not long before Dalgliesh has a major murder inquiry on his hands as the death count rises and the truth seems further away than ever.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/death.shtml (711 words)

	Original Sin
		Adam Dalgliesh and Kate Miskin will find out, but how many more deaths will there be before all the secrets see the light of day?
		It is up to Commander Dalgliesh and his investigation team, including Inspector Kate Miskin, who must unravel each fact from each fiction as the stories surrounding the publishing house grow more twisted as the investigation continues.
		Set at Peverell Press, the oldest publishing house in Britain, the novel follows Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team as they weave their way through suicide, murder, and practical jokes to uncover the truth behind this mystery.
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/original-sin_0446679224.html (1032 words)

	The Lighthouse - P.D.James
		One reason Dalgliesh is dispatched there is because the Prime Minister wants to use it in a few month's time, and it wouldn't do for there to be any security or other concerns.
		Dalgliesh only takes two other officers with him, DI Kate Miskin, and the new man in town (or at least on the team), Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith.
		Adam Dalgliesh has good instincts, but above all he's methodical, and The Lighthouse is a procedural.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/jamespd3.htm (1572 words)

	Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by Knopf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		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.
		Dalgliesh is called upon to reexamine the verdict of accidental death (which the student's father would not accept).
	www.football-gear.biz /stuff-0375412557.html (1581 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
		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 faithful -- and 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.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52857357&srchTerms=0345446666&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (356 words)

	Observer \| Adam Dalgliesh does it again
		Following one or two rather uninspired fictional works, Adam Dalgliesh's latest outing marks a comprehensive return to form and possesses the confident interplay of classical discipline, contemporary morality and strong evocation of place that had hitherto distinguished James's novels in an increasingly overpopulated genre.
		But it is more than the murderous mind that interests her; ironically, the strength of this new book lies not so much in the revelation of the killer's motive as in the reasoning behind less extreme acts of kindness, love and hate.
		Even Dalgliesh, ever the most detached of men, is not immune: in his return to the place of his childhood and the awakening in him of compassion and sexuality, James has written an elegy to the complexities of human behaviour.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4145653-99932,00.html (333 words)

	Dalgliesh TV Show - Dalgliesh Television Show - TV.com
		Roy Marsden stars as Commander Adam Dalgliesh in this series based upon the novels of P.D. James.
		Venetia Aldridge QC agrees to defend Garry Ashe when he is accused of the murder of his aunt - an oppurtunity for her to triumph in her already distinguished career.
		But, only four weeks later, she is found murdered and Commander Dalgliesh is called upon to investigate, and he discovers numerous motives for her murder, before a second murder occurs.
	www.tv.com /dalgliesh/show/18720/summary.html (218 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE MURDER ROOM by P.D. James
		For example: Commander Adam Dalgliesh, dedicated policeman and respected poet, is erudite, smart and handsome, but he is also in important ways an "everyman." He is as believable a hero in the drawing rooms of the very rich as he is talking to working classes.
		Dalgliesh's companion tells him that the structure was built by a prosperous Victorian factory owner in 1894 who copied a structure that had been built in 1636 by an eccentric architect named Indigo Jones.
		Dalgliesh thought it was somewhat intimidating, but his companion was eager to get inside.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/1400041414.asp (1276 words)

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		Dalgliesh is a master at tracking the little things that move humans to murder and the reader follows in his footsteps, searching for the clues even as he seeks them out.
		As usual, there is a hint of melancholy in Dalgliesh's actions and in the novel's bittersweet ending; the reader has come to empathize with the vivid characters who may or may not be guilty.
		James' detective Dalgliesh is a rather dour creation, and in some James novels he can become a tiresome companion--but here James balances his darkness against the demands of the overall novel to considerable effect.
	www.allrealtyadvice.com /book_review/0743219627.aspx (1163 words)

	Martin Shaw Scrapbook - Death In Holy Orders
		And accompanying her to the end of her career will be the indefatigable Commander Adam Dalgliesh, named after one of the author’s teachers, a Miss Dalgliesh.
		The boy’s industrialist father demands that Scotland Yard re-examine the verdict of accidental death and Dalgliesh is soon embroiled in another tale of murder, greed and corruption.
		She revealed that, as the years go by, she is acutely aware of the need to ensure that the standard of her writing does not begin to slip.
	www.greenspot.info /TV/DIHO/DIHOArticle6.html (1529 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Martin Shaw is Adam Dalgliesh
		A killer in the sacred portals of an esteemed theological college provides the backdrop to a challenging case for Commander Adam Dalgliesh, as Martin Shaw takes on the role of the top detective in PD James' Death in Holy Orders for BBC ONE.
		Martin Shaw, whose recent major television successes include Judge John Deed and AandE, is Adam Dalgliesh, the intense, introspective and thoroughly traditional commanding officer, who is sent to investigate a death at St Anselm's, the theological college where he spent a memorable summer as a child.
		When one of the young ordinands dies in mysterious circumstances, his industrialist father is convinced the college authorities have glossed over the truth to avoid a catastrophic scandal which would result in the closure of the college.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/10_october/30/pd_james.shtml (453 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003060409 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. James’s formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
		Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered.
		Adam Dalgleish was intimate with those dark crevices of the human mind where horrors lurked which she couldn’t begin to comprehend.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0415/2003060409.html (411 words)

	The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery-- book review
		This is complicated by a disease outbreak, one that brings Miskin to the fore and tests her resolve as well as her investigative talent.
		Dalgliesh is again a wonder to behold, always calm even while his romantic problems sometimes take his thoughts elsewhere, leaving his inner world in turmoil.
		Even as I was chomping at the bit for Dalgliesh to arrive, I found myself sinking into the story of these people on this island, the various relationships and how they all fit together.
	www.curledup.com /lthouspd.htm (942 words)

	MYSTERY!: Dalgliesh: A Certain Justice
		James's sterling, sensitive Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) returns in the queen of crime's latest "murder-in-the-establishment" drama, A Certain Justice.
		Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is drawn into the inner chambers of the British legal system to investigate the grisly murder of Venetia Aldridge (Penny Downie; The Ice House), an ambitious -- and widely despised -- criminal lawyer.
		As Dalgliesh probes Venetia's past, a terrible secret about her father emerges and appears to be linked to her death -- as well as to a distinguished member of Chambers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/programs/dalgliesh (164 words)

	Murder most literary - Newsday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In New York for the publication of her 13th Adam Dalgliesh novel, "The Lighthouse" (Knopf, $25.95), and to receive the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature, the English mystery writer was in excellent form.
		Though she had arrived from London 18 hours before, James claimed it wasn't the jet lag that does one in, but "waking up at 1, waking up so lively at 1!" To say that she showed no signs of sleep deprivation that day, or that night at a jammed reading, would be an understatement.
		Once a retreat for pirates, and whispered to be the scene of a more recent war crime, it is now a sanctuary for men in power who want to leave behind their cares and cell phones, at least for a week or two.
	www.newsday.com /features/booksmags/ny-bktalk4584250jan15,0,7463203.story?coll=ny-bookreview-headlines (909 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: A Certain Justice [An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery] by P. D. James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Venetia Aldridge, a brilliant barrister, has "four weeks, four hours and fifty minutes left of life." By the time her murder is discovered, readers meet most of the suspects and even sympathize with the murderer (or murderess).
		Everyone in the barrister's life, from her 18-year-old daughter to the retiring head of the law chambers, from her former lover to the cleaning woman, has reason enough to kill.
		Adam Dalgliesh (named for one of her teachers) writes poetry, mournfully misses his deceased wife and child, and seems never to fully connect with romantic partners or colleagues.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook16433.htm (897 words)

	Unnatural Causes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It features her detective Adam Dalgliesh, who happens to be visiting his aunt, Jane Dalgliesh, in Suffolk when the body of a detective novelist, Maurice Seton, is found washed ashore in his own small boat.
		The death is highly suspicious because his hands are missing, having been removed with an axe, just as Seton himself had described in a thriller he was beginning to write.
		The primary responsibility for the investigation falls on Inspector Reckless, but Dalgliesh conducts his own low-key investigation in support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unnatural_Causes (169 words)

	Large Print Reviews - The Lighthouse, by P.D. James - Book Review
		Dalgliesh is meticulous, intelligent, and arresting character to follow as he matures as both a man and a detective.
		In solving this crime, Dalgliesh is aided by Detective Inspector Kate Miskin and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith, and as the murder took place on an isolated and insular island, the number of suspects is necessarily limited.
		In this case, Dalgliesh is called in to investigate the brutal murder of the brilliant, but hated, criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /the_lighthouse.html (424 words)

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