Devices and desires
Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh leaves London to vacation in Norfolk and becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the perpetrator of a series of murders of young women, which continues even after the murderer's capture.
| Main Author: | James, P. D. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
1990, ©1989.
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| Edition: | 1st American trade ed. |
| Series: |
Adam Dalgliesh mystery ;
8. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh leaves London to vacation in Norfolk and becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the perpetrator of a series of murders of young women, which continues even after the murderer's capture. |
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| Physical Description: |
433 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781400076246 1400076242 9780394580708 0394580702 |
| Author Notes: |
Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series, and Death Comes to Pemberley. She became a full-time writer in 1979. Three titles in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series received the Silver Dagger award--Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and A Taste for Death. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a movie in 2006. She received the Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement. She died on November 27, 2014 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) |