P. D. James (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In the decades since the publication of her first book, Cover Her Face, P. D. James has become one of the mystery genre’s most popular and critically acclaimed writers, considered by many to be the heir apparent to such enduring figures as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Yet while James uses the conventions of the traditional British murder mystery—a murder or series of murders, a detective, and a group of suspects, each with a possible motive—her novels are more firmly grounded in reality than those of either of her predecessors. Drawing on her earlier career as a...
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