P. D. James: Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) (AudiobookFormat, 1996, Chivers Audio Books)
audio cassette
English language
Published Jan. 14, 1996 by Chivers Audio Books.
From Amazon.com: 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.
An excellent combination of a compelling page-turner with literary skill. The characters complex and interesting, the plot both intricate and unexpected and conveying thought-provoking ideas. I particularly enjoyed the recurring theme of the River Thames flowing through the novel and the role of the building as an extra character was also well done.
