The Skull Beneath the Skin

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 21 mins)
• By P.D. James
• Narrated By Tammy Ustinov

Cordelia Gray saw no reason why her job as a private detective was an unsuitable job for a woman. Until she was employed to discover why a renowned scientist's son had committed suicide, and she discovered his family's insidious secrets.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Penelope Dellaporta

Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby. The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder.

He hires Cordelia Gray, a fledgling detective, to investigate. And as she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things!

Devices and Desires

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 44 mins)
• By P.D. James
• Narrated By Michael Jayston

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems, and has taken a brief respite from publicity on remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychopathic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. When murder reaches the headland one moonlit night, Dalgliesh finds himself involved in a particularly horrible crime, and in the tangled emotions and motives of the suspects.

Innocent Blood

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By P.D. James
• Narrated By Michael Jayston
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Now eighteen, the adopted daughter of Maurice Palfrey, a well-known academic, Philippa has claimed her birth certificate from the Register Office and, with it, a terrible discovery. Some people never forget. And why should they? In another part of London Norman Scase is steeling himself to meet Philippa's mother, the murderess who, years ago, strangled and buried his little daughter.

Original Sin

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 1 min)
• By P.D. James
• Narrated By Michael Jayston

The Peverell Press, a Thameside publishing house, is ripe for change. The Chairman has just died, and his French partner retired, leaving the latter's ruthless son, Gerard Etienne, as Chairman and Managing Director. Etienne has made many enemies including his discarded mistress and a rejected author; and he has even threatened members of the Peverell staff. When he is found dead on the premises there is no shortage of suspects.