Devices and Desires (60 page)

P. D. James is the author of twenty-one books, most of which have been filmed for television. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Departments of Great Britain’s Home Office. She has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 and was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2008. She lives in London and Oxford.

VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2010

Copyright © 1989 P. D. James

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Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2010. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber, London, in 1989. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited.

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James, P. D., 1920–
Devices and desires / P. D. James.

eISBN: 978-0-307-40039-0

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