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Phyllis Dorothy James White, 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 .
Complete order of P.D. James books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
- Cover Her Face. Sally Jupp was a gorgeous young woman who used her body and cunning to climb the social ladder. Someone has decided to make her pay for her sins, and Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is determined to find the culprit.
- A Mind to Murder. When the administrative head of London's Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, all manner of secrets come out – obliterating the facility's distinguished reputation.
- Unnatural Causes. Maurice Seton spent his life concocting grisly deaths in the mystery novels he sold to millions. Still, nothing he wrote was ever quite so gruesome as his own murder.
- A Shroud for a Nightingale. Nightingale House is a school young ladies attend to learn nursing skills, but after a student plays patient in a demonstration, she's brutally murdered.
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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.
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Explore the works of P. D. James, the Queen of Crime, in five categories: Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, Cordelia Gray Mysteries, Novels, Short Story Collections, and Non-fiction. Find out the reading order and publication dates of her books.
Nov 27, 2014 · Crime novelist PD James, who penned more than 20 books, has died aged 94. Her agent said she died "peacefully at her home in Oxford" on Thursday morning. The author's books, many featuring sleuth...
