P D James
/ˌpiː diː ˈdʒeɪmz/
/ˌpiː diː ˈdʒeɪmz/
- Phyllis Dorothy James (1920-2014) an English writer, mainly of detective stories. Her main characters are the police officer Adam Dalgleish and the private detective Cordelia Gray. Many of her books have been filmed for television, including An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Devices and Desires (1989) and Original Sin (1997). She was made a life peer in 1991.
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