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P. D. James Omnibus: A Taste for Death, Devices & Desires, Original Sin

P. D. James Omnibus: A Taste for Death, Devices & Desires, Original Sin

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

Synopsis

An omnibus edition of three of PD James' best-loved and best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: A Taste for Death , Devices and Desires and Original Sin .

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 1312
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Apr 2008
ISBN 10: 0571241522
ISBN 13: 9780571241521

Author Bio
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors.She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.