Original Sin
P. D. James
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p>