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P.D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James (born 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction.

Her detective novels include:

Cover Her Face[?] (1962) (introducing her Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh[?])
A Mind to Murder[?] (1963)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman[?] (1972) (introducing her female sleuth called Cordelia Gray[?])
Death of an Expert Witness[?] (1977)
Death in Holy Orders[?] (2001)

P.D. James has also written a successful mainstream novel entitled Innocent Blood[?] (1980) and the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992).

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