| P.D. James: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction Contributor(s): Young, Laurel A. (Author), Foxwell, Elizabeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0786497912 ISBN-13: 9780786497911 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2017019937 |
| Series: McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.15 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: British National Health Service employee Phyllis Dorothy James White (1920-2014) reinvented herself at age 38 as P.D. James, crime novelist. She then became long known as England's Queen of Crime. Sixteen of her 20 novels feature one or both of her series detectives, Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard and private eye Cordelia Gray. Stand-alone works include the dystopian The Children of Men (1992) and Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. James's careful plotting has earned comparison with Golden Age British detective writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Yet James's work is thoroughly modern, with realistic descriptions of police procedures and the echoes and aftereffects of crime. This literary companion includes more than 700 encyclopedic entries covering the characters, settings and themes of her published writing, along with a career chronology, chronological and alphabetical listings of her works, and an exhaustive index. |