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A BBC Radio drama based on P. D. James' bestselling novel, starring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrewIn the seventeenth century, a witch is burned in a stone circle. Three hundred and fifty years later, an investigative journalist arrives at a nearby clinic to have cosmetic surgery - and a wee...

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Main Author: James, P. D.
Other Authors: Derrington, Richard
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: London : AudioGO Ltd, 2010.
Edition:Unabridged.
Series:James, P. D. Adam Dalgliesh mystery ; 14.
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Dalgliesh, Adam > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > England > Fiction.
Women journalists > Crimes against > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Dorset (England) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
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Summary:A BBC Radio drama based on P. D. James' bestselling novel, starring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrewIn the seventeenth century, a witch is burned in a stone circle. Three hundred and fifty years later, an investigative journalist arrives at a nearby clinic to have cosmetic surgery - and a week later, she is dead. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder and later a second equally horrific death, find themselves confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt. Family secrets, witchcraft, illegitimacy and the connections between past and present all come to the fore in this gripping, fast-paced adaptation of P. D. James' acclaimed novel, starring Richard Derrington as Adam Dalgliesh, Deborah McAndrew as Kate Miskin and with Carolyn Pickles as Emma Lavenham.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 sound file)
Playing Time:02:10:37
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 31285 KB).
ISBN:9781408481196
Author Notes:P. D. James, pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White, was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, England. During World War II, she served as a Red Cross nurse. She worked in administration for 19 years with the National Health Service. After the death of her husband in 1964, she took a Civil Service examination and became an administrator in the forensic science and criminal law divisions of the Department of Home Affairs. She spent 30 years in British Civil Service. She became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991.

Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series, and Death Comes to Pemberley. She became a full-time writer in 1979. Three titles in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series received the Silver Dagger award--Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and A Taste for Death. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a movie in 2006. She received the Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement. She died on November 27, 2014 at the age of 94.

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