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Original Sin

Original Sin

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.28

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    Paperback 1995

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    Hardcover 1995

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again. 'Outstanding ...These are books to escape into, delighting in the sense that you are in safe hands, no matter how unsafe the subject.' Kate Kellaway, Observer 'An elegantly written, splendidly atmospheric and immensely satisfying mystery.' Sunday Telegraph

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 057122959X
ISBN 13: 9780571229598
Book Overview: Set on the banks of the River Thames in the literary world, Original Sin is the ninth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of crime fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley.

Author Bio
P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011). James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.