Genre: Fiction

Published: 1 August 1994

Publisher: Faber & Faber, Penguin

International Rights have been sold to Argentina/Editorial SudAmericana SA, Brazil/Companhia das Letras, Canada/Knopf Canada, China/Inner Mongolia People’s Publishing, Czech Republic/Albatros Media, Finland/Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava Publishing, France/Librairie Artheme Fayard, Germany/Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur, Holland/Meulenhoff Boekerij, Italy/Mondadori Libri, Japan/Hayakawa Shobo, Norway/H Aschehoug, Poland/Foksal, Romania/Editura RAO, Russia/AST Publishers, Spain/Ediciones B, Sweden/Waldstrom & Widstrand, US/Alfred A Knopf

Original Sin

by The Estate of P.D. James

The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames.

The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose ruthless ambition has made him many enemies: a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author and rebellious colleagues. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a killer who is prepared to strike again.

"Classic P.D. James: rich, delicious and satisfying"
- Sunday Times

"A superb mystery" - Daily Express

Other Books by The Estate of P.D. James

The Part-Time Job

Sleep No More

The Mistletoe Murder and other stories

Death Comes to Pemberley

Talking About Detective Fiction

The Private Patient

The Lighthouse

The Murder Room

Death in Holy Orders

Time to be in Earnest

A Certain Justice

The Children of Men

Devices and Desires

A Taste for Death

The Skull Beneath The Skin

Innocent Blood

Death of an Expert Witness

The Black Tower

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Shroud for a Nightingale

Unnatural Causes

A Mind to Murder

Cover Her Face

The Maul and the Pear Tree