num_pages: 511
description: 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.
language: English
title: Original Sin
titlecomplete: Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
characters: Declan Cartwright, Alan Scully, Sydney Bartrum, Lucinda Norrington, Daniel Aaron, Adam Dalgliesh, Frances Peverell, Gabriel Dauntsey, George Copeland, Jean-Philippe Etienne, James de Witt, Gerard Etienne, Kate Miskin, Esmé Carling, Claudia Etienne, Mandy Price, Miss Blackett, Mrs. Demery
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 11549
places: England, London, England
series: Adam Dalgliesh
publisher: Grand Central Publishing