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.
Key facts about Original Sin
P. D. James wrote Original Sin, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1994. The book has 540 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780770429539 to find the main one.
Original Sin is book 9 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
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