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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: What's so special about books?: or how to answer the child who says that Dickens would have written for video if he'd had the chance

    First published in 1990 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1988 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: No és feina de dones

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  • Cover of: P. D. James's Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman / The Skull Beneath the Skin

    First published in 2015 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, a Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, the Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness

    First published in 2015 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A Case of Classic Whodunits

    First published in 1984 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Intégrales, tome 1: À Visage Couvert / Une Folie Meurtriere / Sans Les Mains / La Proie Pour L'ombre

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  • Cover of: A suitable job for a woman
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    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Tales of Obsession: mystery stories of fatal attractions and deadly desires from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazineeedited by Cynthia Manson.
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  • Cover of: Encounters with Lord Peter

    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ellery Queens Murder Menu: Being Ellery Queen's 24th Mystery Annual

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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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  • Phyllis Dorothy James
  • P D James

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