Adam Dalgliesh · Book 8
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.
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