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Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (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 .
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the title of a detective novel by English writer P. D. James and of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel. It was published by Faber and Faber in the UK [1] in 1972 and by Charles Scribner's Sons in the US.
The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by English writer P. D. James, published in 1992.Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility.James describes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a small group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses.
Adam Dalgliesh (/ ˈ d æ l ɡ l iː ʃ / DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray.
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A Certain Justice is a detective novel by British writer P. D. James, published in 1997 by Faber & Faber in the UK [1] and by Alfred A. Knopf in the US. [2] It was the tenth to feature her recurring character Adam Dalgliesh and the book was dedicated to her five grandchildren.
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Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. [1] It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face.