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Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.


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14 primary books16 released books

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Adam Dalgliesh is a 16-book series with 16 released primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by P.D. James and P. D. James.

#1
Cover her face
#2
A mind to murder
#3
Unnatural Causes
#4
Shroud for a nightingale
#5
The Black Tower
#6
Death Of An Expert Witness
#7
A Taste For Death
#8
Devices and Desires
#9
Original Sin
#10
A Certain Justice
#11
Death In Holy Orders
#12
The Murder Room

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