- Original Sin (novel)
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Original Sin
1st editionAuthor(s) P. D. James Country United Kingdom Language English Series Adam Dalgliesh #9 Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel Publisher Faber & Faber Publication date 2 November 1994 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 400 pp (first edition, hardback) ISBN ISBN 0-571-17253-9 (first edition, hardback) OCLC Number 32108614 Preceded by Devices and Desires Followed by A Certain Justice Original Sin is a 1994 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It is set in London, mainly in Wapping in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, and centers around the city's oldest publishing house, Peverell Press, headquartered in a mock-Venetian palace on the River Thames.
Plot summary
The murder of Peverell Press's managing director, ambitious Gerard Etienne, seems to be the horrible end of a series of malicious pranks in the company headquarters. When Adam Dalgliesh is called to the scene to solve the murder, he soon finds out that the killer does not intend to stop with Etienne.
External links
- P. D. James discusses Original Sin on the BBC World Book Club
Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James Cover Her Face · A Mind to Murder · Unnatural Causes · Shroud for a Nightingale · The Black Tower · Death of an Expert Witness · A Taste for Death · Devices and Desires · Original Sin · A Certain Justice · Death in Holy Orders · The Murder Room · The Lighthouse · The Private Patient
Categories:- 1994 novels
- Novels by P. D. James
- Novels set in London
- Crime novel stubs
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