P. D. James

ADAM DALGLIESH Series:
Main Character: Adam Dalgliesh, Scotland Yard, Poet, London

1. Cover Her Face  '62
2. A Mind to Murder  '63
3. Unnatural Causes  '67
4. Shroud for a Nightingale  '71
5. The Black Tower  '75
6. Death of an Expert Witness  '77
7. A Taste for Death  '86
8. Devices and Desires  '89
9. Original Sin  '94
10. A Certain Justice  '97
11. Death in Holy Orders  '01
12. Murder Room  '04
13. The Lighthouse  '05
14. The Private Patient    '08

Crime Times Three: Three Complete Novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard

CORDELIA GRAY Series:
Main Character: Cordelia Gray, Inherited a Private Detective Agency, London

1. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman  '72 
2. The Skull Beneath the Skin  '82

STAND ALONES:

Innocent Blood  '80

The Children of Men  '93

Death Comes to Pemberley    '11 (A continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)

NON-FICTION:

The Maul and the Pear Tree   '86
Time to be in Earnest   '00
Talking about Detective Fiction    '10