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Informationen zum Autor P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray! and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962)! An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)! Innocent Blood (1980)! Children of Men (1992)! and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011). James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain! America! Italy and Scandinavia! including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities! was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors! and stood down from this role in 2013. Klappentext When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken! a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station! he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. Devices and Desires by P.D. James is the eighth Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Set against the remote Norfolk coastline under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood. Zusammenfassung When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken! a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station! he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate.
