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1. COVER HER FACE (1962). [6 HRS 46 MINS]
HEADSTRONG AND BEAUTIFUL, THE YOUNG HOUSEMAID SALLY
JUPP IS PUT RUDELY IN HER PLACE, STRANGLED IN HER BED BEHIND A BOLTED DOOR.
COOLLY BRILLIANT POLICEMAN ADAM DALGLIESH OF SCOTLAND YARD MUST FIND HER KILLER
AMONG A HOUSEFUL OF SUSPECTS, MOST OF WHOM HAD VERY GOOD REASON TO WISH HER
ILL.
2. A MIND TO MURDER (1963). [6 HRS 52 MINS]
A PIERCING SCREAM, SHATTERING THE EVENING CALM,
BRINGS SUPERINTENDENT ADAM DALGLIESH HURRYING FROM HIS LITERARY PARTY TO THE
NEARBY STEEN PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC, WHERE HE DISCOVERS THE BODY OF A WOMAN
SPRAWLED ON THE BASEMENT FLOOR, A CHISEL THRUST THROUGH HER HEART. AS DALGLIESH
PROBES BENEATH THE APPARENTLY UNRUFFLED CALM OF THE CLINIC, HE DISCOVERS THAT
MANY AN INTRIGUE LIES HIDDEN BEHIND THE GEORGIAN TERRACE'S UNASSUMING FACADE.
3. UNNATURAL CAUSES (1967). [7 HRS 12 MINS]
MAURICE SETON WAS A FAMOUS MYSTERY WRITER -- BUT NO
MURDER FROM HIS IMAGINATION COULD EQUAL THE METHOD OF HIS OWN DEATH. WHEN HIS
MUTILATED CORPSE IS FOUND IN A DRIFTING DINGHY, RIPPLES OF HORROR SPREAD AMONG
HIS BIZARRE NEIGHBOURS ON THE REMOTE SUFFOLK COAST: THE CRUEL AND CYNICAL DRAMA
CRITIC, THE CELEBRATED RECLUSE, THE RAKISH YOUNG HEIR, THE TERRIFIED WOMAN
WAITING FOR HER KILLER IN A LONELY HOUSE... IT IS UP TO SUPERINTENDENT ADAM
DALGLIESH AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY AUNT TO DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT
SETON'S PAST - BEFORE THE PLOT TAKES ANOTHER MURDEROUS TURN.
4. SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE (1971). [10 HRS 2 MINS]
THE YOUNG WOMEN OF NIGHTINGALE HOUSE ARE THERE TO
LEARN TO NURSE AND COMFORT THE SUFFERING. BUT WHEN ONE OF THE STUDENTS PLAYS
PATIENT IN A DEMONSTRATION OF NURSING SKILLS, SHE IS HORRIBLY, BRUTALLY KILLED.
ANOTHER STUDENT DIES EQUALLY MYSTERIOUSLY, AND IT IS UP TO ADAM DALGLIESH TO
UNMASK A KILLER WHO HAS DECIDED TO PRESCRIBE MURDER AS THE CURE FOR ALL ILLS.
5. THE BLACK TOWER (1975). [9 HRS 49 MINS]
THE STORY BEGINS WHEN INSPECTOR DALGLIESH, HIMSELF
RECOVERING FROM BOTH A SERIOUS ILLNESS AND A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE, IS INVITED
TO TOYNTON GRANGE BY THE HOME'S ELDERLY CHAPLIN; SOMETHING IS AMISS, AND THE
CHAPLIN WOULD WELCOME DALGLIESH'S ADVICE. BUT WHEN DALGLIESH ARRIVES, HE FINDS
HIS OLD FRIEND HAS DIED A FEW DAYS EARLIER. WITH LITTLE TO GO ON EXCEPT HIS OWN
SUSPICION, DALGLIESH SLOWLY, GRUDINGLY BEGINS TO INVESTIGATE... AND FINDS ONE
SUSPICIOUS DEATH AFTER ANOTHER....
6. DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS (1977). [7 HRS 24 MINS]
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.
7. A TASTE FOR DEATH (1986). [17 HRS 9 MINS]
WHEN TWO BODIES ARE DISCOVERED WITH THEIR THROATS
SLASHED IN A LONDON CHURCH, DALGLEISH IS CALLED UPON TO SOLVE THE CASE. ONE
VICTIM IS SIR PAUL BEROWNE, FORMER MINISTER OF THE CROWN; THE OTHER IS A TRAMP
ACCUSTOMED TO SLEEPING IN THE CHURCH VESTIBULE. IT SEEMS THAT THESE DEATHS MAY
BE TIED TO THOSE OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE
BEROWNE HOUSEHOLD. DALGLEISH FEELS AN UNUSUAL EMPATHY IN THIS CASE; HE HAD
KNOWN BEROWNE AND SENSED SEVERAL PARALLELS IN THEIR LIVES.
8. DEVICES AND DESIRES (1989). [15 HRS 40 MINS]
A SERIAL KILLER OF WOMEN IS ON THE LOOSE ON THE
NORFOLK COAST IN A COMMUNITY OVERSHADOWED BY THE LARKSOKEN NUCLEAR POWER
STATION. COMMANDER DALGLIESH, WHO IS STAYING AT HIS AUNT'S CONVERTED WINDMILL,
BECOMES INVOLVED IN THE HUNT FOR THE MURDERER, A SEARCH THAT IMPLICATES HIM IN
THE CONCERNS AND DANGEROUS SECRETS OF THE HEADLAND COMMUNITY.
9. ORIGINAL SIN (1994). [16 HRS 4 MINS]
THE PEVERELL PRESS, A TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD
PUBLISHING FIRM HOUSED IN A DRAMATIC MOCK-VENETIAN PALACE ON THE RIVER 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 DALGLIESH AND HIS TEAM ARE CONFRONTED WITH
A PUZZLE OF EXTRAORDINARY COMPLEXITY AND A MURDERER WHO IS PREPARED TO STRIKE
AGAIN.
10. A CERTAIN JUSTICE (1997). [15 HRS 33 MINS]
GUILT OR INNOCENCE IS OF NO CONCERN TO A DEFENDING
COUNCIL, LEAST OF ALL TO UNEMOTIONAL VENETIA ALDRICHT QC, WHEN ANOTHER
BRILLIANT FORENSIC DISPLAY SECURES HER CLIENT AN ACQUITTAL FOR MURDER AT THE
OLD BAILEY. BUT IT IS A DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH WHEN THE SAME SINISTERLY
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG PSYCHOPATH INVOLVES HIMSELF WITH HER GAUCHE LOVE-STARVED
DAUGHTER. WHEN THE IRON-LADY QC IS THEN STABBED IN LOCKED CHAMBERS, WITH
GROTESQUE TRIMMINGS TO THE CORPSE ADDED POSTHUMOUSLY BY ANOTHER HAND, COMMANDER
ADAM DALGLEISH AND HIS TEAM, METICULOUSLY SIFTING THE HUMAN SEDIMENT OF THE
PAST FOR A MOTIVE, ARE SUDDENLY WRONG-FOOTED WHEN THE PRIME SUSPECT IS
MURDERED!
11. DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS (2001). [14 HRS 2 MINS]
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.
12. THE MURDER ROOM (2003). [13 HRS 44 MINS]
WHEN COMMANDER DALGLIESH IS PERSUADED BY AN OLD
FRIEND TO VISIT THE DUPAYNE, A SMALL PRIVATE MUSEUM ON THE EDGE OF HAMPSTEAD
HEATH, HE CAN HAVE NO IDEA THAT HE WILL RETURN TO IT ONE WEEK LATER UNDER VERY
DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. ONE OF THE FAMILY TRUSTEES HAS BEEN HORRIBLY MURDERED
AND DALGLIESH AND HIS TEAM ARE CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE A DEATH WHICH, FROM THE
FIRST, IS FRAUGHT WITH COMPLICATIONS. EVEN BEFORE THE MURDER, THE MUSEUM WAS IN
TUMULT. A NEW LEASE IS DUE TO BE SIGNED AND TWO OF THE TRUSTEES ARE DETERMINED
TO KEEP THE MUSEUM OPEN, THE THIRD PASSIONATELY DETERMINED ON ITS CLOSURE.
13. THE LIGHTHOUSE (2005). [12 HRS 38 MINS]
COMBE ISLAND OFF THE CORNISH COAST HAS A
BLOODSTAINED HISTORY OF PIRACY AND CRUELTY BUT NOW, PRIVATELY OWNED, IT OFFERS
RESPITE TO OVER-STRESSED MEN AND WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF HIGH AUTHORITY WHO
REQUIRE PRIVACY AND GUARANTEED SECURITY. BUT THE PEACE OF COMBE IS VIOLATED
WHEN ONE OF THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS IS BIZARRELY MURDERED. ADAM DALGLIESH IS
CALLED IN TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY QUICKLY AND DISCREETLY, BUT AT A DIFFICULT TIME
FOR HIM AND HIS DEPLETED TEAM.
14. THE PRIVATE PATIENT (2007). [13 HRS 35 MINS] (FINAL)
WHEN THE NOTORIOUS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST RHODA
GRADWYN BOOKED INTO MR CHANDLER-POWELL'S PRIVATE CLINIC IN DORSET FOR THE REMOVAL
OF A DISFIGURING AND LONG-STANDING FACIAL SCAR, SHE HAD EVERY PROSPECT OF A
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION BY A DISTINGUISHED SURGEON, A WEEK'S PEACEFUL
CONVALESCENCE IN ONE OF DORSET'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MANOR HOUSES AND THE BEGINNING
OF A NEW LIFE. SHE WAS NEVER TO LEAVE CHEVERELL MANOR ALIVE. DALGLIESH AND HIS
TEAM ARE CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE THE MURDER, AND LATER A SECOND DEATH, WHICH
ARE TO RAISE EVEN MORE COMPLICATED PROBLEMS THAN THE QUESTION OF INNOCENCE OR
GUILT.
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