Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
Written by P. D. James and Peter Kemp
Narrated by Daniel Weyman
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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.
P. D. James
P. D. James (1920–2014) was born in Oxford in 1920. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honour for Literature. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.
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