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Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh. [2] Life and career.
Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray.
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Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2011 historical mystery novel by British writer P.D. James that continues Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with a murder mystery.
Sep 4, 2021 · All of P.D. James' Adam Dalgliesh Books in Order. The Adam Dalgliesh novels were published between 1962 and 2008, and while Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard detective living in London, many books in the series are set elsewhere in the UK.
Jun 12, 2024 · P.D. James (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died November 27, 2014, Oxford) was a British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge.
Nov 27, 2014 · P. D. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard.
Nov 27, 2014 · Phyllis Dorothy James White, who became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 but who was better known as “the Queen of Crime” for the multilayered mystery novels she wrote as P. D. James,...
Jul 2, 2020 · P. D. James loved the writers of Golden Age mystery fiction—Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham, Tey—the manor houses, the closed circle of suspects, the patient investigator unearthing long-buried secrets and motivations, the restoration of order to a disordered society.
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