CD Audiobook
Sleep no more [sound recording] : six murderous tales / P.D. James ; foreword by Peter Kemp.
"A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P.D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories originally published in magazines, this enchanting arrangement of memorable whodunits treats the reader to atmospheric storytelling, mysteries to be solved, and enjoyable puzzles that will keep you guessing. With wit and warmth, P.D. James pays tribute to her English crime-writing forebears, delighting in the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of quintessentially English settings. Sleep No More is a beautifully produced, rare gift book, and an exciting addition to the P.D. James library, offering her devoted readers a glimpse of earlier work never before collected between two covers, and--for those who come newly to it--a delightful place to begin."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525588177
- Physical Description: 4 audio discs (4 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio/Books on Tape, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Daniel Weyman. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Murder > Investigation > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Audiobooks. Short stories. |
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An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret. - Random House, Inc.
No one gets inside the head of the murderer'or makes it a more thrilling read'than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private Patient.
It's not always a question of "whodunit?" Sometimes there's more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren't brought down even though they're found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through those six stories as we are drawn into the thinking, the memories, the emotional machinations, the rationalizations, the dreams and desires behind murderous cause and effect.
This selection © 2017 by the Estate of P.D. James.
'the Yo-Yo' written 1996; revised as 'Hearing Ghote' in The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey copyright P. D. James 2006.
'the Victim' first published in Winter's Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker copyright P. D. James 1973.
'the Murder of Santa Claus' first published in Great Detectives, ed. D. W. McCullough copyright P. D. James 1984.
'the Girl Who Loved Graveyards' first published in Winter's Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge copyright P. D. James 1983.
'A Very Desirable Residence' first published in Winter's Crimes 8, ed. Hilary Watson copyright P. D. James 1976.
'mr Millcroft's Birthday' first published as 'the Man Who Was 80' in The Man Who copyright P. D. James 1992; revised as 'mr Maybrick's Birthday' copyright 2005.
Foreword copyright 2017 by Peter Kemp.
