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Adam Dalgliesh · Book 8 of 15
Devices and Desires
P. D. James
1989 · English
Detective and mystery storiesPoliceFictionAdam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character)Dalgliesh, Adam (Fictitious character)
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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 youn…
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