- Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character)
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Fayard, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf. GmbH & Co, Edicions 62
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- cat, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9788490709238
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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
An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
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