P.D. James, an award-winning author known for British detective novels and murder mysteries such as Death Comes to Pemberley, died Thursday. She was 94. Publisher Faber and Faber said James died ...

P.D. JAMES: I don't think I actually believed or imagined that I'd end up being an international bestseller writer of detective fiction. But I began with it because I liked it so much myself.

LONDON – P.D. James took the classic British detective story into tough modern terrain, complete with troubled relationships and brutal violence, and never accepted that crime writing was second ...

P.D. James, the British author whose cerebral murder mysteries brought a new level of sophistication to the genre and who created such enduring characters as the erudite but melancholy Scotland ...

She is now a baroness, but to millions of readers worldwide, P.D. James is a spinner of crime novels rich with detail and memorable characters. Her first Adam Dalgliesh book was published in 1962 ...

P.D. James was once ahead of her time. No cozy, bloodless Agatha Christie-style murders for her. This British author broke ground with her nuanced portrayal of victims, killers and detectives who ...

LONDON (AP) -- P.D. James took the classic British detective story into tough modern terrain, complete with troubled relationships and brutal violence, and never accepted that crime writing was ...

A remembrance of murder mystery writer PD James, who died Thursday at her home in Oxford, England.

Aug. 3, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, one of England's most celebrated crime writers. Writers & Company revisits Eleanor Wachtel’s 2000 conversation with the ...

P.D. James, whose mysteries are complex and thrilling, will reenact each scene, if necessary, to get it right.

British novelist P.D. James died Thursday at 94. The celebrated author wrote incredibly popular mystery novels, many of which were brought to new audiences when adapted to the screen. In ...

LONDON—P.D. James, the celebrated British crime novelist who used her experience of working in psychiatric hospitals to create detective stories famed for their detail and depth, died Thursday ...