P. D. James

P. D. James
Nome completo	Phyllis Dorothy James
Alcume	P. D. James
Nacemento	3 de agosto de 1920
	Oxford, Inglaterra
Falecemento	27 de novembro de 2014 (94 anos)
	Oxford, Inglaterra
Nacionalidade	Reino Unido
Relixión	Igrexa Anglicana
Alma máter	Long Road Sixth Form College
Ocupación	escritora, política, novelista e escritora de ciencia ficción
Pai	Sydney Victor James
Nai	Dorothy Amelia Hone
Cónxuxe	Ernest Connor Bantry White (m. 1941–1964, a súa morte)
Fillos	Claire, (n. 1942) e Jane, (n. 1944)
Xéneros	Narrativa
Coñecido/a por	Cover Her Face
Premios	oficial da Orde do Imperio Británico, Riverton International Honour Prize, Nick Clarke Award, Prémio Edgar, Cartier Diamond Dagger, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, membro da Royal Society of Literature e Anthony Award
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Phyllis Dorothy James, Baronesa James de Holland Park, nada en Oxford o 3 de agosto de 1920 e finada ibídem o 27 de novembro de 2014, foi unha escritora inglesa coñecida como P. D. James. Acadou a fama coa serie de novelas protagonizadas polo policía e poeta Adam Dalgliesh.

Obra

Novelas

Misterios de Adam Dalgliesh

1. Cover Her Face (1962)
2. A Mind to Murder (1963)
3. Unnatural Causes (1967)
4. Shroud for a Nightingale (1971)
5. The Black Tower (1975)
6. Death of an Expert Witness (1977)
7. A Taste for Death (1986)
8. Devices and Desires (1989)
9. Original Sin (1994)
10. A Certain Justice (1997)
11. Death in Holy Orders (2001)
12. The Murder Room (2003)
13. The Lighthouse (2005)
14. The Private Patient (2008)

Misterios de Cordelia Gray

• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
• The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982)

Novelas miscelánea

• Innocent Blood (1980)
• The Children of Men (1992)
• Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)

Omnibus editions

• Crime Times Three (1979): Three Complete Novels (1988), Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder e Shroud for a Nightingale
• Murder in Triplicate (1980): In Murderous Company (1988), Unnatural Causes, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman e The Black Tower
• Trilogy of Death (1984): Innocent Blood, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman e The Skull Beneath the Skin
• A Dalgliesh Trilogy (1989): Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower e Death of an Expert Witness
• A Second Dalgliesh Trilogy (1993): A Mind to Murder, A Taste for Death e Devices and Desires
• An Adam Dalgliesh Omnibus (2008): A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires e Original Sin

Non ficción

• The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 (1971), con Thomas A. Critchley
• Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography Faber & Faber, Londres, 1999 ISBN 0-571-20396-5
• Talking About Detective Fiction (2009)