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 ...

For P.D. James, A Good Mystery Celebrated Human Intelligence The British author of best-selling detective stories has died at age 94. "In a sense, ...

The Children of Men By P.D. James Knopf, 247 pages, $22 In the first chapter of Genesis, no sooner does God create man and woman than he blesses them and directs them to “be fruitful and mult… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phyllis Dorothy James, P.D. James to her fans around the world, died today at her home in Oxford, England, at age 94. She followed in a long tradition of great, British detective novelists.

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 ...

P.D. James, whose mysteries are complex and thrilling, will reenact each scene, if necessary, to get it right. Her unique fingerprint on the crime genre - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

Aug. 3, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, one of England's most popular and celebrated crime writers. James died on Nov. 27, 2014, at the age of 94.

MYSTERY The Private Patient By P.D. James. Alfred A. Knopf, 352 pp., $25.95. P.D. James was once ahead of her time. No cozy, bloodless Agatha Christie-style murders for her. This British author ...