Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
by James, P. D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, with white spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean); pages cris
- ISBN 10
- 0571141781
- ISBN 13
- 9780571141784
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1989. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, with white spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean); pages crisp and unmarked. Signed on title without inscription.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn't the only murderer at work under the sinister shadow of the power station. In Devices and Desires, award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, The Murder Room and Children of Men) plots a chilling investigation into the motives of a cold-hearted serial killer. This novel was adapted for BBC television in 1984 and starred Robert Marsden as the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh.
Synopsis
Devices and Desires is a 1989 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It takes place on Larksoken, an isolated headland in Norfolk.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132353
- Title
- Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
- Author
- James, P. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, with white spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean); pages cris
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571141781
- ISBN 13
- 9780571141784
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 408
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, detective, PDJames, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.75 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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