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P. D. James (1920–2014), 1962: Cover Her Face

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P. D. James, the Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts), FRSL (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature), was best known for her sensitive intellectual police detective, Adam Dalgliesh, who appears in fourteen novels. James’ amateur detective Cordelia Gray appears in only two novels, but is perhaps equally well known due to her place in discussions of women’s roles in the detection of crime (deliberately invoked by James in the title of the first Cordelia Gray novel: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972). James also wrote three non-series novels, the last of which, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), was a murder-mystery sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

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  1. Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, France

    Delphine Cingal

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  1. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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Cingal, D. (2020). P. D. James (1920–2014), 1962: Cover Her Face. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_54

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