Adam Dalgliesh · Book 9
Original Sin
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 540
- ISBN-13
- 9780770429539
- Type
- novel
About this book
Original Sin (1994) is the ninth entry in the series, arriving five years after Devices and Desires and running 540 pages -- among the longest Dalgliesh novels -- as P. D. James continued setting her cases inside a single closed professional world.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Original Sin is book 9 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Devices and Desires. It is followed by A Certain Justice. 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 9780745164885
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780770429539