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Country United Kingdom Series Adam Dalgliesh #9 Pages 400 pp Followed by A Certain Justice Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 2 November 1994 Originally published 2 November 1994 Preceded by Devices and Desires Publisher Faber and Faber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar P D James books, Adam Dalgliesh mystery books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 on 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.
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