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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 .
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Apr 28, 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 · 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.
P. D. James was one of the most successful detective novelists working in Britain today. Her writing has been praised for its sophisticated narrative techniques and its complex and multifaceted characters. These are features not usually associated with such popular literary genre as the detective story.
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.
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