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Title Statement | Devices and desires / P.D. James. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Devices & desires |
Series | World of crime |
Author | James, P. D |
Publication | Toronto: Vintage Canada,2010.©1989 |
Edition | Vintage Canada edition. |
Extent of Item | 546 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780676972122 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr00408875 |
General Notes | "An Adam Dalgliesh mystery"--Back cover. "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber, London, in 1989"--Colophon. |
Summary | A serial killer of women is on the loose on the Norfolk coast in a community overshadowed by the Larksoken nuclear power station. Commander Dalgliesh, who is staying at his aunt's converted windmill, becomes in-volved in the hunt for the murderer, a search that implicates him in the concerns and dangerous secrets of the headland community. |
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By Topic | Police--Fiction--England |
Serial murder investigation--Fiction--England | |
By Name | Dalgliesh, Adam |
By Location | Norfolk (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Detective and mystery fiction |