P.D. James
P.D.
James was the pen name of Phyllis Dorothy James (1920–2014), a British author known for literary detective fiction.
Her novels, many featuring Scotland Yard commander Adam Dalgliesh, brought psychological depth and elegant prose to the crime genre: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, The Children of Men.
She was made a life peer as Baroness James of Holland Park.
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- crimePunishable illegal act
- crime fictionGenre about solving crimes
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
novelist · whodunit · police procedural · inspector · Scotland Yard · thriller · locked room · corpse · death scene · investigation · sleuth · murder · suspense · clues · Agatha Christie · fog · manor · country house
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- pseudonymspen name, pen names, pseudonym, pseudonyms, nom de plume
- Noble Women Writers
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
- Dystopian AuthorsGeorge Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins