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2023 SEP 28 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- New study results on literature have been published. According to news reporting out [...]

Byline: By, Kathryn Williams Dalgliesh is a brand new drama set in the 1970s and based on P.D. James' bestselling Inspector Dalgleish Mysteries books. It stars Doctor Foster and Jonathan [...]

Byline: Matt Roush, TV Insider Judge Judy Sheindlin takes her courtroom act from syndication to streaming in the new, but oh so familiar, Judy Justice. A classic literary detective, P.D. [...]

Byline: DAVID STOUT Ruth Rendell, a prolific and hugely popular writer of intricately plotted mystery novels that combined psychological insight, social conscience and, not infrequently, teeth-chattering terror, died on Saturday [...]

Byline: Peter Calamai Ottawa -- P.D. James lived across the square from our London apartment in the mid-1970s. But we found this out only in December, 1975, when four IRA [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI erenzetti@globeandmail.com When I first met P.D. James at her London home in 2005, she showed me a picture of herself, clad in the ceremonial robes she wore [...]

Phyllis Dorothy James White, who became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 but who was better known as ''the Queen of Crime'' for the multilayered mystery novels she wrote [...]

Byline: Steve Donoghue P.D. James, the British author whose cerebral murder mysteries brought a new level of sophistication to the genre and who created such enduring characters as the erudite [...]

Byline: Steve Donoghue P.D. James, the British author whose cerebral murder mysteries brought a new level of sophistication to the genre and who created such enduring characters as the erudite [...]

Lord Mayor of Westminster The Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Angela Harvey, was the host at a luncheon held yesterday at Westminster City Hall for the Commanding Officer, Capt Hugh [...]

Mrs E.M. Chilver, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1971–79, is 98; Baroness James of Holland Park (P.D. James), author, 92; Lt Col Sir Robert Stewart, Lord–Lieutenant for Clackmannan, 1994–2001, [...]

Byline: James Kidd Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James (read by Sheila Mitchell) AudioGo (audiobook) We've had Pride and Prejudice in Bollywood, with zombies. Now we have P&P hard-boiled [...]

Byline: Ed Siegel 'Death Comes to Pemberley' by P.D. James; Alfred A. Knopf ($25.95) ___ First we had 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.' Now we get Pride and Prejudice and [...]

Mrs E.M. Chilver, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1971–79, is 97; Baroness James of Holland Park (P.D. James), author, 91; Lt Col Sir Robert Stewart, Lord–Lieutenant for Clackmannan, 1994–2001, [...]

(CNN) -- British crime novelist P.D. James died Thursday at age 94, her publisher Faber and Faber [...]

The Private Patient by P D James Faber & Faber, pounds 12.99 The patient is Rhoda, a 'notorious'' investigative journalist, who books herself into an isolated, extremely smart plastic surgery [...]

The author of The City's End teaches architecture and history. THE PRIVATE PATIENT. By P.D. James. Knopf. 352 pages. $25.95. For those who cut their mystery-reading teeth on the likes [...]

THE PRIVATE PATIENT. By P.D. James. Knopf. 352 pages. $25.95. For those who cut their mystery-reading teeth on the likes of Agatha Christie, each new novel by P.D. James promises [...]

The Private Patient by P. D. James FABER, pounds 18.99, 395 pp When an investigative journalist checks in for plastic surgery to a private clinic in Dorset, you know she [...]

(From Turkish Daily News) What comes first, murder or motive? The answer for author P.D. James is like the plots of her whodunits -- never the obvious. 'What usually comes [...]

THE LIGHTHOUSE. By P.D. James. Knopf. 335 pages. $25.95. The latest best seller from P.D. James has many of the elements of classic British mysteries written by the likes of [...]

Like a beacon of hope, P.D. James' 17th novel deftly penetrates the fog of mediocre mysteries burdened with the same old serial killers and laughably heroic lawyers. While 'The Lighthouse' [...]

Mystery writer P.D. James was made a British peer in 1991. The title is a misnomer to many fans, who consider her peerless. Baroness James of Holland Park has again [...]

Sunday December 04, 2005 Section BAYLIFE Page 7 'The Lighthouse' Illuminates Philosophical Issues By KEVIN WALKER 'The Lighthouse,' by P.D. James (Knopf, $26) A cynic could separate much of today's [...]

PD James hates to disappoint her readers. When we last met to talk about one of her books, it was 1992 and she had broken the mould of her successful [...]

Byline: DANA BISBEE "The Lighthouse," by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95) Grade: B- There's more than murder in the air in "The Lighthouse," British author P. D. James' newest mystery. First, […]

Calling all P.D. James fans: England's mistress of mystery - and author of "Death in Holy Orders" - will participate in an online chat with readers today from noon to […]

By DESMOND RYAN, Special from The Philadelphia Inquirer DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS, by P.D. James; Knopf, 415 pp., $25. The scouring winds and pounding waves of the North Sea eat [...]

Here's your chance to chat with P.D. James. Do you wonder if Adam Dalgliesh's new romance is likely to last? Or if Kate Miskin will advance in her career? Pose […]

Calling all P.D. James fans: England's mistress of mystery - and author of "Death in Holy Orders," the Boston Herald Book Club's current selection - will participate in an online […]

CURRENT SELECTION: "Death in Holy Orders," by P.D. James (Knopf, list price, $25; book club price $17.50). ** Buy the book at one of our 23 participating bookstores. Tell them […]

Attention armchair detectives: Get into the spirit of this month's Boston Herald Book Club choice, "Death in Holy Orders" by master mystery novelist P.D. James, by trying a little literary […]

CURRENT SELECTION: "Death in Holy Orders" by P.D. James (Knopf, list price, $25; book club price $17.50). - Buy the book at one of our 23 participating bookstores. Tell them […]

Paging all armchair sleuths: To get into the spirit of this month's Boston Herald Book Club choice, "Death in Holy Orders" by master mystery novelist P.D. James, try your hand […]

Most mystery writers use cliff-hanging action to maintain suspense. It takes a master to bring down the cliff at the start of a book - and still keep readers on […]

CURRENT SELECTION: "Death in Holy Orders" by P.D. James (Knopf, list price, $25; book club price 17.50). Joining the Boston Herald Book Club is a snap. - Buy the book […]

Byline: Linda Brinson JOURNAL BOOK PAGE EDITOR Last year, P.D. James turned 80 and published her autobiography. Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking those events heralded the retirement of [...]

Death in Holy Orders By P. D. James. 415 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $25. CHARACTER, plot and setting take equal part in the work of P. D. James, […]

A classic detective novel, littered with bodies and suspects, is a hugely satisfying read, and we can usually rely on P.D. James to deliver. In her new one, Death in [...]

An extension of the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, places AustenCOs characters in the midst of a murder mystery. Because Pride [...]

LONDON - The swift passage of time and the desire to tame "sleeping tigers" are much on the mind of British mystery writer P.D. James. In "Time to Be in […]

When mystery writer P.D. James turned 77 in 1997, she was prompted to keep a journal for the year. The resulting memoir, 'Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of [...]

"Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography" by P.D. James (Knopf, $25) First and foremost this book is a great pleasure to read. It is, though, a volume […]

Byline: Sally Vallongo Jan. 4--THE PRIVATE PATIENT. By P.D. James. Knopf. 352 pages. $25.95. "What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order," esteemed English […]