P.D. James - A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

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.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Organization of the Companion

James's Works in Chronological Order

James's Works in Alphabetical Order

Brief Biography

A Career Chronology

Abbreviations

The Companion

Annotated Bibliography

Index

About the author

Laurel A. Young is an English instructor at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina.Series Editor Elizabeth Foxwell, an Agatha Award winner, serves as managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection and is an editor at McFarland.

Product details

• Authors: Laurel A. Young
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Foxwell (Editor), Foxwell Elizabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2017
• EAN: 9780786497911
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-9791-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Crime and mystery fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary companions, book reviews & guides