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P. D. James

An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.

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English crime writer (1920-2014)

Born 3 August 1920
Died 27 November 2014

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  • Cover of: Ar gortyn brau
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  • Cover of: Death of an Expert Witness
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  • Cover of: A certain justice
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  • Cover of: Shroud for a nightingale
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  • Cover of: The skull beneath the skin
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  • Cover of: A taste for death
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  • Cover of: A mind to murder
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  • Cover of: Innocent blood
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  • Cover of: Death in Holy Orders
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  • Cover of: Devices and Desires
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  • Cover of: Murder Room
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  • Cover of: The children of men
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  • Cover of: Original sin
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  • Cover of: The Lighthouse: an Adam Dalgliesh mystery
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  • Cover of: Death comes to Pemberley
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  • Cover of: The Private Patient
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  • Cover of: The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
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English crime writer (1920-2014)

Born 3 August 1920
Died 27 November 2014

Subjects

Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Large type books, Police, Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Murder, England, fiction, Dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character), fiction, Investigation, Mystery, English Detective and mystery stories, English literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction in English, Fiction, crime, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Mystery fiction, English fiction, Fiction, general, Mystery and detective stories, Crimes against

Places

England, London, Great Britain, Australia, Dorset, Dorset (England), London (England), 1800-1837, 221B Baker Street, Abbey Grange, Ballarat, Boscombe Pool, Boscombe Valley, Chislehurst, Cornwall, East Anglia, East Anglia (England), Hatherley Farm, Herefordshire, Inglaterra, Island of Courcy, London Tower Hamlets, New York, Norfolk, Oxford (England)

People

Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Adam Dalgliesh, Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Cordelia Gray, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Alice Turner, Ballarat Gang, Charles McCarthy, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) - Bennet (Fiction), Elizabeth Bennet (Fictitious character), Eustace Brackenstall, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) - Darcy (Fiction), Fitzwilliam Darcy (Fictitious character), Inspector Lestrade, Jack Croker, James McCarthy, Jane Austen (1775-1817), John Turner, John Williams (d. 1811), Lady Brackenstall, P. D. James, Patience Moran, Phyllis Dorothy - Diari James, Phyllis Dorothy James (1920-)

Time

21st century, 19th century, 20th century, 1800-1837, 1803, 18th century, s. XX-XXI

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Alternative names

  • Phyllis Dorothy James
  • P D James

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