P. D. James. (2009). Devices and Desires. Unabridged Books on Tape.

P. D. James. 2009. Devices and Desires. Books on Tape.

P. D. James, Devices and Desires. Books on Tape, 2009.

P. D. James. Devices and Desires. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.

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     P. D. James was the author of twenty books, many of which feature her detective hero Adam Dalgliesh and have been televised or filmed. She was the recipient of many honors, including the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature, and in 1991 was created Baroness James of Holland Park. She died in 2014.

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National Bestseller. 
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
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     "Taut. . . . Absorbing. . . . Better than her best."

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   • source: The Washington Post Book World
   • content: "I have often thought of mysteries as the sorbets of literature, something light and tangy to clear the palate between more serious courses. The books of P.D. James, however are more substantial fare, fulfilling as well as delicious, and Devices and Desires is no exception."
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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: "A masterful writer . . . Devices and Desires seems to be that highly prized work--a terrific tale suspense and detection that also delivers the satisfaction of a mainstream novel."
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   • source: The Kansas City Star
   • content: "Brilliant . . . wonderful. P.D. James does it again." --USA Today
     
     "Her stories are so engrossing that it is difficult to read slowly enough to pay attention to the remarkable writing. But in Devices and Desires, she is so at the top of her form that to rush though would itself be a crime."
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   • source: Newsday
   • content: "Undiluted pleasure."
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   • source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
   • content: "Vintage P.D. James. . . . Devotees of Britain's Queen of Crime will be enthralled . . . showcasing lyrical prose abounding with vivid imagery, suberbly delineated characters, and a labyrinthine puzzle. . . . It's impossible to resist this haunting, dark tale."
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   • source: Glamour
   • content: "We're glued to P.D. James's beautifully spun whodunit. . . . The master's shivering touch is intact."
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   • source: Boston Herald
   • content: "A cleverly crafted book that readers may very well stay up all night to finish. . . . She exposes the murderously repressed rage beneath the clam surface of typical middle-class Britishers."
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   • source: People
   • content: "The greatest living mystery writer . . . weaves a dazzling array of psychological profiles into a gently ironic examination of human life and the 'relative value' we ascribe to it."
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    • source: Booklist
    • content: "James at her best . . . a superb tale of murder."
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    • source: The Seattle Times
    • content: "Devices and Desires may be her best yet. . . . The plot is superb, with the larger moral issues of a nearby nuclear power station and the thickly interwoven lives of characters lending measured gravity to the sensational murder story. And the prose style is a dream."
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    • source: New Woman
    • content: "Un-put-downable. . . . P.D. James is never content with just a formulaic detective story. She takes the whodunit to deeper levels."
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    • source: The Detroit News
    • content: "James is one of Britain's best writers in the genre. . . . Devices and Desires brings the classic whodunit as far as it can go."
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    • source: The Sacramento Bee
    • content: "The best book she's written. It has literary merit that detective works seldom attempt . . . everything fits beautifully."
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    • source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    • content: "No other mystery writer--and few writers period--offers such a rich bounty. . . . Devices and Desires is superb. It is what good writing--and reading--is all about. James has used all her powers to produce her best work yet. Her fans--old and new--will be overjoyed."
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    • source: San Diego Magazine
    • content: "James once again gives us a convincing portrait of contemporary society, while at the same time she scrupulously observes--and smartly updates and complicates--all the mystery genre conventions."
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    • source: Library Journal
      
    • content: "Demonstrates just how well James commands the English language. . . . The complex plot unfolds into the usual Jamesian tangle of human relationships and subplots. The story takes shape as James unwraps each nuance of personality, each intricate piece of the puzzle."
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      January 1, 1990
      James ( A Taste for Death ) sets her 11th novel on Larksoken, a remote windswept headland in Norfolk, where the presence of a huge nuclear energy plant serves as a metaphor for the power of the past to rule over her characters. Commander Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, in Larsoken to settle an estate left him at the death of a relative, is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer, the Whistler. Dalgliesh's neighbors include the power station's director, Alex Mair; his elegant sister Alice, a cookbook author; acting administrator--and Alex's former lover--Hilary Robarts; and anti-nuclear activist Neil Pascoe. The next signature killing , of the widely disliked Robarts, turns out to have occurred hours after a young man who firmly establishes his identity as the Whistler commits suicide. The question of who murdered Robarts, then, centers around motive. This intricate, layered mystery may be read as parable: we can escape the consequences of our choices, political and personal, no more than we can shed our private histories. This is dark James, plotted with a slight unevenness but utterly faithful to her deeply and sympathetically plumbed characters. 175,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB main selections.

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Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.

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1. • source: Mystery Writers of America
   • value: Grand Master Award
2. • source: Crime Writers’ Association
   • value: Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award

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