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).