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Original sin

by P. D. James

Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of a managing director at a venerable London publishing house. Set in a mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, the police team must identify a killer among disgruntled staff and authors before more lives are lost.

Accession 12986 ISBN 0571172539 Publisher Faber & Faber
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