"P. D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney James, a tax inspector, and educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in"
"Unnatural Causes Unnatural Causes (1967) is a detective novel by English crime writer P. D. James. While staying with his Aunt Jane in Suffolk, Adam Dalgliesh stumbles across a most bizarre and frightening murder. A local detective novelist, Maurice Seton, becomes himself the subject of investigation when his boat washes ashore with his body inside, with both his hands cut off, seemingly with a meat cleaver. Strangely, the scene of his death is mirrored in a manuscript for the new thriller he was writing... ""Something of a letdown. The country-house setting and the characterization of the unfortunate criminal are excellently"
"""A Taste for Death"" (2008) and ""The Private Patient"" (2010). Adam Dalgliesh Adam Dalgliesh (pronounced ""dal-gleash"") is a fictional character who has been 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' other detective, Cordelia Gray. In the first novel, Dalgliesh is a Detective Chief Inspector. He eventually reaches the rank of Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in London. He is an intensely cerebral and private person. He writes poetry, a fact about which his colleagues"
"Original Sin (James novel) Original Sin is a 1994 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It is set in London, mainly in Wapping in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, and centers on the city's oldest publishing house, ""Peverell Press"", headquartered in a mock-Venetian palace on the River Thames. The murder of Peverell Press's managing director, ambitious Gerard Etienne, seems to be the horrible end of a series of malicious pranks in the company headquarters. When Adam Dalgliesh is called to the scene to solve the murder, he soon finds out that the killer does not"
"Peter James (writer) Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton, the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. James was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. For a brief period of time whilst at film school James worked as Orson Welles' house cleaner. Subsequently he spent several years in North America, working as a screenwriter and film producer, beginning in Canada in 1970 working first as a gofer, then writer, on the children's television series Polka Dot Door. His"
"Adam Dalgliesh Adam Dalgliesh (pronounced ""dal-gleash"") is a fictional character who has been 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' other detective, Cordelia Gray. In the first novel, Dalgliesh is a Detective Chief Inspector. He eventually reaches the rank of Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in London. He is an intensely cerebral and private person. He writes poetry, a fact about which his colleagues are fond of reminding him. Several volumes of his poetry"
"contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the ""antiquarian ghost story"". James was born in a Goodnestone, Dover, clergy house in Kent, England, although his parents had associations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. His father was Herbert James, an Evangelical Anglican clergyman, and his mother, Mary Emily (""née"" Horton), was the daughter of a naval officer. He had two older brothers, Sydney and Herbert (nicknamed ""Ber""), and an older sister, Grace. Sydney James later became Archdeacon of Dudley. From the age of three (1865) until 1909"
"which the livery (alongside the police markings) changes each year to match the jacket of his latest Roy Grace novel. Roy Grace Novels Other Novels Non-fiction Peter James (writer) Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton, the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. James was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. For a brief period of time whilst at film school James worked as Orson Welles' house cleaner. Subsequently he spent several years in North America, working as"
"The Lighthouse (James novel) The Lighthouse is a 2005 novel by P. D. James, the thirteenth book in the classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. Adam Dalgliesh is brought in to investigate the mysterious death of a famous writer on a remote and inaccessible island off the Cornish coast. Combe Island is a discreet retreat operated by a private trust, where the rich and powerful find peace and quiet. Famed novelist Nathan Oliver, who was born on the island and thus is allowed to visit as he wishes, arrives with his daughter, Miranda and his copy-editor, Dennis Tremlett, who, unbeknownst to"
"handled, and the powerful ending under rushing waters is both credible and mysterious, but the method of murder as well as its cause is farfetched. Dalgleish has had a tiff with his lover and lets her go out of his life in a psychologically odd instance of inaction."" - ""Catalogue of Crime"" Unnatural Causes Unnatural Causes (1967) is a detective novel by English crime writer P. D. James. While staying with his Aunt Jane in Suffolk, Adam Dalgliesh stumbles across a most bizarre and frightening murder. A local detective novelist, Maurice Seton, becomes himself the subject of investigation when his"
"T.P. James Thomas Power James (better known as T. P. James) was a publisher in Brattleboro, Vermont best known for publishing a completion of Charles Dickens' ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" claimed to be written by the spirit of Dickens channeled through a spiritualist summoning. The book, published in 1873 under the title ""Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood,"" was reviewed by the ""New York Times,"" as well as regional newspapers, like the ""Salem Observer"". With a successful marketing campaign, the book became an item of comment in the literary community, with an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle"
"James Hadley Chase James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond, and Ambrose Grant. He was one of the best known thriller writers of all time. The canon of Chase, comprising 90 titles, earned him a reputation as the king of thriller writers in Europe. He was also one of the internationally best-selling authors, and, so far, 50 of his books have been made into films."
"Ed James (writer) Ed James (June 8, 1908 – March 6, 1995) was an American television writer and television producer during the 1950s and 1960s. Among his credits are contributions to the long-running television sitcoms ""Father Knows Best"" (based on the characters created by Ed James) and ""F Troop"". He also produced the 1959 film ""No Place Like Home"" James' career as a comedy writer spanned four decades, and encompassed work in both radio and television. After working as a freelance writer, it was in 1949 that he had the idea for the sitcom ""Father Knows Best"". He wrote the"
"E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies in the United States and set the record in the United Kingdom as the"
"worked for a hospital board in London. She began writing in the mid-1950s. Her first novel, ""Cover Her Face"", featuring the investigator and poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was published in 1962. Many of James's mystery novels take place against the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal justice system and the National Health Service, in which she worked for decades starting in the 1940s. Two years after the publication of ""Cover Her Face"", James's husband died, and she took a position as a civil servant within the criminal"
"P. J. Brooke P.J. Brooke is the writing name of Philip James O'Brien and Jane Brooke. As P.J. Brooke they have written two contemporary crime thrillers set in Granada, Spain, featuring sub-Inspector Max Romero. Philip O'Brien started writing fiction after the death of his first wife. Jane Brooke got involved, commenting on exercises prepared for his creative writing class at Glasgow University, and then taking a more active role. ""Blood Wedding"", their first novel, was published in 2008 by Constable & Robinson in UK and Soho Press in the USA, and a second novel, ""A Darker Night"", is scheduled for"
"Bill James (novelist) Bill James (born 1929) is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms ""David Craig"" and ""Judith Jones"". He was a reporter with the Daily Mirror and various other newspapers after serving with the RAF He is married, with four children, and lives in South Wales. The bulk of his output under the Bill James pseudonym is the ""Harpur and Iles"" series. Colin Harpur is a Detective Chief Inspector and Desmond Iles is the Assistant Chief Constable in an unnamed coastal city in southwestern England. Harpur and"
"The Private Patient The Private Patient (2008) is a crime novel by English author P. D. James, the fourteenth and last in her popular Adam Dalgliesh series. In deepest Dorset, the once magnificent Cheverell Manor has been renovated and transformed into a plastic surgery clinic, run by the famous cosmetic practitioner George Chandler-Powell. Two days after Rhoda Gradwyn, an investigative journalist, arrives in the hope of having her almost lifelong facial scar removed, she's savagely murdered and Chandler-Powell finds his surgery under scrutiny from Dalgliesh and his team, who are soon caught in a race against time when another body"
"Harlem Detective The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: Their protagonists are two black NYPD detectives (whose origins can be traced to a short story Himes published (1933) in ""Abbott's Monthly Magazine"") — Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson — whose names suggest the nature of their police methods and reputation. Jones and Johnson generally go easy with, and even tolerate, numbers operators, madames, whores, and gamblers; but they are extremely hostile to violent criminals, drug dealers, confidence tricksters and pimps. Himes says that they are tough,"
"Eddie James Eddie James (born August 4, 1961) is an American murderer and sex offender. His appearance on the national television show ""America's Most Wanted"" led to his capture and conviction for the killings of an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother in September 1993. He was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. James believed his last name was Matlack until the age of 10, when he discovered that the man raising him was his stepfather. At 11, James met and went to live with his biological father, who introduced him to drugs. Ironically, his father was a drug counselor. In his mid"
"publication in July 2010. P. J. Brooke P.J. Brooke is the writing name of Philip James O'Brien and Jane Brooke. As P.J. Brooke they have written two contemporary crime thrillers set in Granada, Spain, featuring sub-Inspector Max Romero. Philip O'Brien started writing fiction after the death of his first wife. Jane Brooke got involved, commenting on exercises prepared for his creative writing class at Glasgow University, and then taking a more active role. ""Blood Wedding"", their first novel, was published in 2008 by Constable & Robinson in UK and Soho Press in the USA, and a second novel, ""A Darker"
"Cover Her Face Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh 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. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young."""" The story opens with a dinner party hosted by Mrs. Eleanor Maxie at Martingale, a medieval manor house in the (fictional) Essex village of Chadfleet. Mrs. Maxie's son and"
"but it's still pretty darn good."" The Private Patient The Private Patient (2008) is a crime novel by English author P. D. James, the fourteenth and last in her popular Adam Dalgliesh series. In deepest Dorset, the once magnificent Cheverell Manor has been renovated and transformed into a plastic surgery clinic, run by the famous cosmetic practitioner George Chandler-Powell. Two days after Rhoda Gradwyn, an investigative journalist, arrives in the hope of having her almost lifelong facial scar removed, she's savagely murdered and Chandler-Powell finds his surgery under scrutiny from Dalgliesh and his team, who are soon caught in a"
"1989, he became the youngest ever editor of ""Punch"" magazine, a role he stayed in for three years. Tom Cain (author) David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as ""The Daily Mail"" and ""The Mail on Sunday"". He was mocked in ""Private"
"NYPD homicide detective, Dave Gurney. The books in the series have been translated into more than two dozen languages. John Verdon John P. Verdon is an American novelist. In 2010, Crown/Random House published his first mystery thriller, ""Think of a Number"", the debut novel in the ""Dave Gurney"" detective series. Vernon is a graduate of Regis High School in New York City and Fordham University. His initial career was in the advertising industry in New York City, where he worked on the creative sides of several large agencies. After his retirement from advertising, he and his wife decided to leave"
"A Mind to Murder A Mind to Murder (1963) is a crime novel by P. D. James, the second in her Adam Dalgliesh series. In a psychiatric clinic late one night, the piercing scream of a dying woman shatters the calm, and Detective Superintendent Dalgliesh is called away from his literary soiree to investigate. He soon finds the body of a clinic employee sprawled across the cold basement floor, a chisel driven mercilessly through her heart; and so marks the beginning of a deadly psychological battle with an intellectual, predatory killer who feels no remorse, no regret and no self-control"
"Donald James Donald James (born Donald James Wheal; 22 August 1931—28 April 2008) was a British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer. Born in World's End, Chelsea, and educated at Sloane Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he read history), James completed his National Service in the Parachute Regiment before returning to London to work as a supply teacher. He was the author of the best-selling novels ""Vadim"", ""Monstrum"", ""The Fortune Teller"" and ""The Fall of the Russian Empire"", as well as non-fiction books such as ""The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich"". He wrote under a number of"
"inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame at the inaugural ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards. In August 2014, James was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. James' main home was her house on Holland Park Avenue, the area from which she took her title: she also owned homes in Oxford, and Southwold. James died at her home in Oxford on 27 November 2014, aged 94. She is survived by her two daughters, Clare and Jane, five grandchildren and eight"
"Lee Child James D. ""Jim"" Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his ""Jack Reacher"" novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, ""Killing Floor"", won both the Anthony Award, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. Jim Grant was born in Coventry, England. His father was a civil servant. He is the second of four sons; his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a"
"their Série noire series. He was also very popular in other European markets, as well as Africa and Asia. Following perestroika, Centrepolygraph in Russia contracted to publish all his titles. However, his books failed to take hold in the American market. James Hadley Chase James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond, and Ambrose Grant. He was one of the best known thriller writers of all"
"Los Alamos, New Mexico. James Doss James D. Doss (1939 – 17 May 2012) was a noted American mystery novel author. He was the creator of the popular fictional Ute detective/rancher Charlie Moon, of whom he wrote 17 mystery novels. James ""Danny"" Doss was born and raised in Kentucky and died in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was also an electrical engineer who worked on particle accelerators and biomedical technology for the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory, while writing his novels. After retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he continued to write his popular novels while living in"
"A Taste for Death (James novel) A Taste for Death is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's ""Live Flesh"". It was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1987. The book has been adapted for television and radio. In the dingy vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Paddington, two bodies have been found with their throats slashed. One is an alcoholic vagrant, whereas the other is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and"
"Steven James Steven James is the author of more than thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Bowers Files, a eleven-book series of psychological thrillers which includes ""Opening Moves"", ""Every Crooked Path"", ""Every Deadly Kiss"", ""Every Wicked Man"", ""The Pawn"", ""The Rook"", ""The Knight"", ""The Bishop"", ""The Queen"", ""The King"", and ""Checkmate"". The series has received three Christy Awards and numerous other honors. Steven James was born in Wisconsin in 1969. He earned his M.A. in Storytelling at East Tennessee State University in 1997. He lives with his wife and three daughters in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of eastern"