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

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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.

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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

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