Devices and desires
by P. D. James
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Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.
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Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character), Large type books, Serial murderers, Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office, Great Britain, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, NOVELAS POLICIACAS INGLESASTimes
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Devices and desires
1990, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st American trade ed.
0394580702 9780394580708
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