James, P. D., Baroness James of Holland Park
James, P. D., Baroness James of Holland Park Phyllis Dorothy James ( 1920 – ),crime writer, born in Oxford. She was educated at Cambridge Girls' High School, after which she worked in a tax office. She also worked as a hospital administrator, and in 1968 took a job in the Home Office, where she became involved with forensic investigations: in consequence her fiction is underpinned by strong factual detail. Her first novel, Cover Her Face ( 1962 ), introduced the character of the romantic Adam Dalgleish, a police detective who is also a published poet. Dalgleish also appears in A Mind to Murder ( 1963 ), Unnatural Causes ( 1967 ), Shroud for a Nightingale ( 1971 ), The Black Tower ( 1975 ), Death of an Expert Witness ( 1977 ), A Taste for Death ( 1986 ), Devices and Desires ( 1989 ), and Original Sin ( 1994 ), which is set in a long-established but...
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