Devices and Desires
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780446359757
- Type
- novel
About this book
Devices and Desires (1989) is the eighth Dalgliesh novel, following A Taste for Death and running 512 pages, part of the run of substantial, densely plotted books James wrote from the mid-1980s onward as the series moved into its later, more expansive phase.
Key facts about Devices and Desires
Devices and Desires is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 1989. It runs to 512 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Devices and Desires. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780446359757 to find the main one.
Devices and Desires is book 8 of 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with Cover Her Face (1962).
Additionally, P. D. James writes Cordelia Gray as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death Comes to Pemberley is the latest published P. D. James book on file, from 2011.
About P. D. James
P. D. James (1920-2014), full name Phyllis Dorothy James, was a British crime novelist best known for the Adam Dalgliesh series, fourteen novels following a Scotland Yard detective who is also a published poet, and widely credited with elevating the classic English detective novel into more psychologically serious, literary territory. See every P. D. James book in order.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Devices and Desires is book 8 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows A Taste for Death. It is followed by Original Sin. See the full Adam Dalgliesh reading order.
Adam Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard Commander who is also a published, critically respected poet -- a deliberate pairing that lets P. D. James write murder mysteries with the density and moral seriousness of literary fiction. Across fourteen novels spanning nearly half a century, James sets her cases in tightly closed, institutional worlds -- a forensic science lab, a theological college, a private psychiatric clinic, a publishing house, a remote island retreat -- and uses the murder investigation to expose the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780886192488
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446359757