P. D. JAMES - Devices and Desires. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 3rd Printing, Binding: Cloth, Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0394580702 Harback Hardback. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. After the publication of his latest book of poetry, Commander Adam Dalgliesh has escaped from the hubbub of London to the remote Norfolk headland called Larksoken and the converted windmill he has inherited from his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape from murder. A psychopathic serial killer ahd been terroizing the area, strangling one woman after another, and here, in the shadow of the great Larksoken Nuvlear Power Station, the police are frantically trying to stop the slaughter. 433 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).