The Private Patient

Adam is called into investigate the murder of an investigative journalist at a private clinic in Dorset. (more)

Adam is called into investigate the murder of an investigative journalist at a private clinic in Dorset. (less)

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients ... (more)

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. (less)

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients ... (more)

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. (less)

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon Ge... (more)

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating. Two days later she was dead, the victim of murder. (less)

When notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into an exclusive clinic in Dorset for the removal of a dis... (more)

When notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into an exclusive clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, followed by a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are swiftly called in when a second death occurs, the situation raises an even more complicated problem than the question of innocence or guilt. (less)