Devices And Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #8) by P. D. James

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. 'From the Trade Paperback edition.'. This 1995 Penguin Books Paperback is in good condition. Signed.

ISBN: 9780140132915 SKU: 1331694 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Mystery