She brought me many, many hours of pleasure reading her books.
PD James Wiki entry
Her character Adam Dalgliesh wiki
Publisher Faber and Faber says mystery writer P.D. James, who brought realistic modern characters to the classical British detective story, has died. She was 94.
James’ books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, sold millions in many countries and most were just as popular when adapted for television.
The publisher said James died Thursday at her home in Oxford, southern England.
I’ve always enjoyed her books.
This, from the NYTimes article you cited, is priceless:
Roy Marsden played Dalgliesh on the “Mystery!” adaptations. Ms. James found him to be a “good actor, but he’s not my Dalgliesh.” Unlike Mr. Marsden, Dalgliesh had a full head of hair and no mustache. And Ms. James was troubled by “the class thing.” Her commander, she said, “wouldn’t wear some of the clothes Roy does, he wouldn’t wear his signet ring on the wrong finger, he wouldn’t have talked to Lady Ursula Berowne with his hand in his pocket, as he did.”
Love that, ThelmaLou . I’m so sorry to hear of her passing. She was one of my favorite mystery authors. She was amazing. And she wrote The Children of Men–more sf than mystery.
We’ve lost a great one.
njtt:
Whodunit?
[slowly backs away]
I never said it was poison.
[/slowly backs away]
Frank
November 27, 2014, 11:46pm
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She was a wonderful writer. I enjoyed her books very much.
Her Facebook page announced the news yesterday morning. She was my favorite author, and had been since the summer of 1984 when I was almost 13 and picked up A Shroud For A Nightingale in a train station newsstand on the way to camp.
She helped reinvent the genre. There were 14 books featuring Adam_Dalgliesh. R.I.P.